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What is Yii

The Yii is an open-source, light-weighted PHP based framework used to develop a whole web application much faster. It accelerates a web development application rapidly.
The Yii (pronounced as Yee or Jii) is a Chinese name which is an acronym for Yes It Is and it means simple and evolutionary. It is suitable for every sized project giving highly optimized performance.
It uses model-view-controller approach. It includes a code generator called Gii, which writes the code for you and save your time..

- Yii 1.0 was released on December 3, 2008. Many other extended versions of 1.0 came into existence. It supported PHP 5.1.0 or above and it is no longer used. It's maintenance stopped in December 31, 2010.
- Yii 1.1.0 was released in January 10, 2010. Many other extended versions of 1.1.0 came into existence. It supports PHP 5.1.0 or above and is still used. It's maintenance stopped in December 31, 2016.
- Yii 2.0.0 was released in October 12, 2014. Some extended versions of this version are also released and it also supports PHP 5.1.0 or above. Yii 2 is the current and updated version of Yii. It's last release was Yii 2.0.10 in October 20, 2016

Yii is a powerful console tool. Hence it is recommended to have a command line access to develop an application.
Following things are required to use Yii:
- PHP 5.4+:
- Web server