A virtual appliance (VMware image) with an installation of Yii 1.0.6 and the following components is now available.
We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.6!
In this release, we included more than twenty feature enhancements and about ten bug fixes. Some of the major feature enhancements are summarized as follows.
We improved the yiic shell command so that it can generate model classes all at once for the tables in a database. In addition, the command also generates the relations it discovers in the tables. We enhanced the logging feature in several aspects, including logging context information and profiling of SQL executions. We implemented the support for using a controller action to display application errors. Last but not the least, we added CFileCache which allows to cache data in files.
We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.5!
In this release, we included nearly thirty feature enhancements and a dozen of bug fixes. Some of the major feature enhancements are summarized as follows.
We made several significant improvements to the ActiveRecord (AR) feature in Yii. We implemented named scopes (thanks to Ruby on Rails for its inspiration) in AR, which allows us to write snappy and chainable queries like Post::model()->published()->recently()->findAll(). We further improved the lazy loading feature of AR by supporting on-the-fly query options. We also added support for using Oracle with AR, thanks to our community member Ricardo for his generous contribution.
In this video tutorial, Pelle ten Cate shows how to use Yii to develop a blog system in less than 30 minutes. It is a great complement to the the Yii Blog Tutorial and the Yii blog demo. Thanks to Pelle for his wonderful work and generous contribution!
We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.4!
In this release, we included about thirty feature enhancements and more than twenty bug fixes. We continue to improve the powerful ActiveRecord (AR) implementation in Yii. In particular, we added support for using SQL Server with AR (thanks to Christophe for his generous contribution). We also added a so-called STAT relation to facilitate aggregational queries in AR. Moreover, we enhanced AR so that it can be used for tables without primary keys and foreign keys. We added several new components, including a validator to check the existence of input data in a table, a Zend Data cache component and an eAccelerator cache component, and a cache dependency represented in terms of a PHP expression.
Please check the change log to learn about the complete list of changes.
We continue to make progress with translation of Yii documentation. In particular, the translation of the Guide to Polish and Indonesian are close to finish. Thanks to those who participated in Yii translation project.
We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.3!
In this release, we included about thirty feature enhancements and a dozen of bug fixes. In particular, we added the support for application modules that serve as highly reusable software units at the coarsest level. We further enhanced ActiveRecord by allowing developers to fully control how to join related tables, including lazy join, eager join, aggressive join and hybrid join. We also implemented the script mapping feature which can be used with the newly-added Google AJAX API support to optimize external script inclusion in Web pages. Please check the change log to learn about the complete list of changes.
We also made significant progress with documentation. We added a tutorial describing how to use Yii to build a blog system. We developed a collaborative tutorial system called Yii cookbook which has already attracted from our community users about twenty articles covering various aspect on Yii. With the gracious contribution from the Yii community, the Definitive Guide to Yii has been completely translated into German (by Michael Härtl and Peter Matulla) and Swedish (by Tommy)! And the translations to Russian, Japanese and Romanian are close to be finished.
Thank you for your support! And special thanks to those who participated in Yii translation project.
It is a great honor that Yii, as the only PHP framework, was nominated for Great Indian Developer Awards 2009! The second edition of India’s first and premier awards for the software developer ecosystem will recognize organizations and products that are contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem.
Yii folks, please show your passion for Yii by voting for Yii. The voting process starts from now and lasts till April 3, 2009.
Finally, we have completed the writing of the tutorial on the blog demo. Compared with the Definitive Guide, this tutorial focuses more on developing a complete Web application using Yii. It is thus more suitable as an beginner book to learn Yii. For more details, please check out the Yii blog tutorial. Note, some sections in this tutorial require the upcoming version 1.0.3. If you are using the SVN copy, you should be fine.
The Yii Cookbook is a collection of Yii tutorials, each addressing a specific development task. Everyone with a Yii forum account can participate in creating or editing tutorial pages in the cookbook. Write now to share your knowledge about Yii with other people.
We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.2!
In this release, we included about 40 enhancements and 10 bug fixes. We implemented the behavior feature that can be used to enhance existing components (e.g. application, model) in a plug-in-and-use approach. We introduced several improvements to the already sophisticated ActiveRecord feature, including the newly implemented scenario-based massive attribute assignment feature, the support for on-the-fly relational query options, and the radical way to perform eager loading. Last but not the least, we implemented the choice format feature for I18N which greatly simplifies plural form handling in message translation.
Please check the change log to learn about the complete list of all issues resolved in this release.
With the Yii community's tremendous help, this release also contains translations for core messages, documentation and views in many languages, including German, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
We would like to thank our Yii users for their generous contribution and effort put in to this project. Special thanks to those who participated in translation.
We are proud to announce the release of Yii Framework v1.0.1!
In this release, we included over twenty minor enhancements and a dozen of bug fixes. We implemented the feature for supporting scenario-based validation. With the help from the Yii community, we added core message translations in German, Spanish and Swedish. We also optimized Yii and further improved its performance. Last but not the least, we added a complete blog demo to help new users to learn Yii. More details about this release can be found in the change log.
We would like to thank our Yii users for their generous contribution and effort put in to this project. Enjoy and happy 2009!
Happy New Year!
As a new year gift, we added to SVN a complete blog demo which shows how to use Yii to develop a real world Web application. The blog demo contains features including user login/logout, blog management, comment management and tagging. In the near future, we will also add theming and internationalization to it.
We have optimized Yii for the upcoming 1.0.1 release. Compared with 1.0.0, the new version is improved by 10 to 80 percent in the maximum RPS. This further widens the performance gap between Yii and other frameworks! Please check out the performance comparison page, which was updated to include the latest versions of other frameworks.
Wei used his expertise on search and added site-wide searching capability to our website. It allows us to search for four types of information (forum, guide, class reference and extension) using a single unified interface! And the searching is done in just a glimpse of time.
Feel interested in how it is done and want to make site-wide searching available to your site? Please contact us.
We are proud to announce that the first stable release of Yii is now available!
Thank you all for your feedback, suggestions and help during Yii's public testing period. We believe this release has reached to a state that allows Yii to be used in a production environment. And we are committed to ensure backward compatibility in future service packs.
Over the previous RC release, we added four new components in this formal release: CTabView, CStarRating, CUploadedFile, CFileValidator. We also added many minor enhancements to individual components and fixed several reported issues.
Please make sure you read the upgrade instructions if you are upgrading from earlier versions. We are eager to hear your feedback on Yii. Please report to us if you find any issues.
The Definitive Guide to Yii is now available in PDF format. Thanks to Wei Zhuo for his nice PDF conversion script!
The extension repository system is now ready. You may share your Yii extensions with others using this system. Please let us know if you have suggestions or find any problems using this system. We hope the system can grow to a degree that it allows one to build up a Web application more quickly with the extensions.
