 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 | 2.0.52 | 4.6.1 | 7.2.6 | 12.0.7 | 5.2.3 | 1.8.2 | 2.2.0 | 4.0.6 | 2.*@dev | 4.5.0 |
| Release date | Feb. 13th 2025 | May 2nd 2025 | May 2nd 2025 | Apr. 15th 2025 | Apr. 24th 2025 | 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 7.3 | >= PHP 8.4 | >= PHP 8.2 | PHP >= 8.2, OpenSSL PHP Extension, PDO PHP Extension, Mbstring PHP Extension, Tokenizer PHP Extension, XML PHP Extension, | >= PHP 8.1 | >= PHP 5.4 | >= PHP 5.3 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | >=PHP 5.3.0 | |
| Backward compatibility | ||||||||||
| 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... | ||||||
| X (Twitter) | @yiiframework | @CodeIgniter | @symfony | @laravelphp | @cakephp | @fuelphp | ||||
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