Link | Yii | CodeIgniter | Symfony | Laravel | CakePHP | FuelPHP | Zend Framework 2 | phalcon | PHPixie | Slim framework |
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Website | yiiframework.com | codeigniter.com | symfony.com | laravel.com | cakephp.org | fuelphp.com | zend.com | phalcon.io | phpixie.com | slimframework.com |
Latest version | 2.0.38 | 4.2.10 | 6.1.7 | 9.3.11 | 4.4.7 | 1.8.2 | 2.2.0 | 4.0.6 | 2.*@dev | 4.5.0 |
Release date | Sep. 14th 2020 | Nov. 5th 2022 | Oct. 28th 2022 | Nov. 15th 2022 | Oct. 30th 2022 | Jun. 27th 2019 | May 15th 2013 | May 16th 2020 | Mar. 18th 2014 | Apr. 14th 2020 |
License | BSD | BSD-style | MIT | MIT | MIT | MIT | BSD | New BSD License | BSD | |
Requirements | >= PHP 5.4 | >= PHP 7.4 | >= PHP 8.1 | PHP >= 7.4, OpenSSL PHP Extension, PDO PHP Extension, Mbstring PHP Extension, Tokenizer PHP Extension, XML PHP Extension, | >= PHP 7.2.8 | >= PHP 5.3 | >= PHP 5.3 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | |
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Features | ||||||||||
Internationalization I18N / L10n | gettext database PHP array | language class | XML (XLIFF) CSV PHP | PHP array, gettext via extension | gettext, PHP array | PHP array | ||||
Code generation | Yii CLI, Gii (Web based) | CLI | CLI | CLI | CLI | |||||
ORM | Database Access Objects (DAO), Active Record (AR) | ActiveRecord | Doctrine 2, Propel (active record) | ELOQUENT ORM (active record) | Custom | Custom | PHPixie ORM | |||
Cache storage | APC, Database, eAccelerator, File, Memcache, WinCache, XCache, ZendPlatform | File, apc, memcached, xcache | HTTP, APC, eAccelerator, XCache | File System, Database, Memcached, APC, Redis, Xcache, WinCache, Memory (Arrays) | Memcache, APC File, APC, Memcache, Redis | File, Redis, Memcache, APC | ||||
Dependency injection container | Yes | Yes With autowiring | Yes | |||||||
Services | SOAP / WebServices | XML-RPC | Third party | |||||||
Template System | PHP and Prado's - Several others using Extensions (Razor, Smarty, Twig, etc) | PHP, Simple template parser "{var_name}" | PHP, Twig | Blade, PHP, Custom | Custom but Smarty/Twig can be used | PHP, Dwoo, HAML, JADE, Markdown, Mustache, Smarty, Twig | PHP | |||
Web2.0 | built-in jQuery, extendable to any javascript framework | jQuery HTML5boilerplate | Full jQuery, jQuery UI, Grid System, Native AJAX,RestFul | JS-library agnostic | ||||||
Testing library | PHPUnit, Selenium | PHPUnit (In development) | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | PHPUnit | |||
Edge Side Includes | Yes include tag only | |||||||||
Code generation | Yii CLI, Gii (Web based) | CLI | CLI | CLI | CLI | |||||
Layer generator | Yes DoctrineBundle, PropelBundle | |||||||||
Menu generator | ||||||||||
CRUD generation | Yes Gii | Yes SensioGeneratorBundle | ||||||||
Logging management | Yes PSR-3 compliant | Yes | ||||||||
User interface | ||||||||||
Multiple databases | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
Security | ||||||||||
XSS | Yes Built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
XSRF | Yes Built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
SQL injection | Yes Built-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
Auth module | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||
Resources | ||||||||||
Website | yiiframework.com | codeigniter.com | symfony.com | laravel.com | cakephp.org | fuelphp.com | zend.com | phalcon.io | phpixie.com | slimframework.com |
Tutorial | yiiframework.com/... | codeigniter.com/... | symfony.com/... | laravel.com/... | cakephp.org/... | zend.com/... | phpixie.com/... | |||
Github / Bitbucket / Sourceforge | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | github.com/... | ||
Commercial Support | Yes http://www.clevertech.biz/blog/yii/ | Yes www.expressionengine.com | Yes http://symfony.com/services/support | Yes http://cakedc.com | Yes http://www.zend.com/en/support-center/support/ | |||||
Notable projects using it | stay.com fictioncity.net humhub.org | expressionengine.com skyclerk.com | Dailymotion: symfony.com/... Drupal 8 eZ Publish 5 | Hot Scripts, Affilorama... | ||||||
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