Yii plugin adds useful enhancements to NetBeans IDE including the following:

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This is a April Fool news

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We are very glad to announce that we have two new members joining our Yii development team: Timur Ruziev and Paul Klimov. If you are following the Yii development activities on GitHub, you may already know them very well. Both Timur and Paul are very devoted to Yii and have excellent technical skills. We believe their joining the team will help push forward Yii even faster. Welcome!

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YiiStorm is a plugin for PhpStorm IDE that is adding code navigation enhancements for Yii framework based projects.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.13. You can download it from the Yii project site at

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You probably heard about a good WYSIWYG editor called Imperavi Redactor or even tried it. If you like it, there's a good news for you. Our excellent community funded buying Redactor OEM license so now it can be used for free for any Yii-based product.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.13 Release Candidate. You may download it from the following page:

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We just have two new Yii books published: "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP", and "The Yii Book".

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Since the last release (Yii 1.1.12), we have accumulated 31 bug fixes, 39 enhancements and 6 updates. It's time for us to prepare for the next release: Yii 1.1.13.

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Because Yii 1.1 has been widely used and it has received a lot of support from the community users, we decided to extend the end-of-maintenance date of Yii 1.1 to December 31, 2015. And if needed, we may further extend this date. This means we'll continue fixing important things, reviewing pull requests and answering questions about Yii 1.1, even after Yii 2 is released.

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Today JetBrains announced the release of PhpStorm version 5 which adds initial support for the Yii framework.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.12. You can download it from the Yii project site at

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The recent update of DHTMLX, a JavaScript component library, introduces the possibility to integrate the client-side DHTMLX components with the Yii framework. DHTMLX delivers a rich collection of user interface components including rich-featured data grid, treeview, event calendar, and other.

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We are very glad to have a new member joining our developer team. His name is Carsten Brandt and his forum ID is CeBe. CeBe is from Germany and has been a veteran Web developer for many years. He has been actively participating in the discussion and fixing various Yii issues. All these contributions demonstrate his deep understanding of Yii and excellent technical skills. We believe his joining the team will help push forward Yii even faster. Welcome!

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.11. In this release, we've included more than 100 enhancements and bug fixes.

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The first Yii conference called YiiConf 2012 was held on May 19 in Kiev, Ukraine. It gathered more than 200 people from Yii Russian-speaking community. Since it was in Russian, we didn't announce it at yiiframework.com. The conference went extremely successful. We hereby are sharing some information with you.

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It's official now: Yii is on GitHub! We also switched to use GitHub issue tracker. Existing issues have already been imported into it.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.10. This release mainly fixes several critical bugs in CActiveForm, CJuiDatePicker, and yiilite.php that were introduced in release 1.1.9. For the complete list of changes in this release, please refer to the change log.

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We are very pleased to announce the immediate availability of Yii Framework version 1.1.9. In this release, we've included nearly 60 enhancements and bug fixes.

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PACKT publishing released the second book about Yii authored by core team member Alexander Makarov (samdark). This book is a recipe book about Yii. It contains 13 indepen­dent chapters full of material that will show you how to use Yii efficiently.

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