LARAVEL VS YII: WHICH ONE IS BETTER
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Both the framework (Laravel and Yii) offers high-quality & swift website development. Here, the question arises which one to choose for app development; from here, only the Laravel vs Yii war begins.
LARAVEL VS YII: 8 FACTORS TO CHOOSE BEST AMONG LARAVEL & YII
1) VALIDATION LARAVEL VS YII
Laravel:: No scenario-based validation is available in the default package of Laravel. It does not provide any construct to validate a model at different scenarios. Moreover, there is no way to define fillable attributes based on the scenario. You will have to custom code everything.
Yii:: Both massive assignments of the model from the request parameters and its validation can be done based on the scenario. Here is an example of Data type validation in Yii2.
2) CLIENT SIDE VALIDATION LARAVEL VS YII
Laravel:: No default support is available on Laravel.
Yii:: Provides out of box client-side (JavaScript) validation of the form. You need to define only one set of rules of the model for validation in server-side and client-side.
3) ROUTING YII VS LARAVEL
Laravel:: We are supposed to declare route to each and every action in all controllers. We find its quite odd !! Besides why the protected function of the controller is being accessed from outside if provided in route. Somehow we believe that it should be the task of a framework to provide default routing. Even CodeIgniter provides it !! Though we thank Laravel for providing Resource Routing.
Yii:: Simple routing is possible as we don’t need mention route to each and every action. Route of actions is pickup by default. This same is the case of CodeIgniter as well.
4) CRUD GENERATION LARAVEL VS YII2
Laravel:: No default support. Many projects have an admin panel for CRUD functionality from various tables.
Yii:: Yii2 includes a handy tool, named Gii, that provides rapid prototyping by generating commonly used code snippets as well as complete CRUD controllers.
Yii provides a Web-based interface for you to interactively generate the code you want. It also provides a command-line interface for people who prefer to work with their console windows most of the time.
5) DOCUMENTATION YII VS LARAVEL
Laravel:: Laravel has the best documentation for sure. However, we personally believe the documentation could have been organized better and written in a more generic way as when you create a big thing, you increase the chances of making loopholes.
Yii:: On the other hand, though Yii does not have very strong documentation like Laravel still it’s pretty organized. Moreover, it does not have a steep learning curve. If you are only following the docs you can easily start with basic coding.
6) THE PROMISE
Laravel:: “The PHP Framework For Web Artisans”, even after working for one year, we are still trying to get the feel of an “Artisian”. Frankly, we choose to work in Laravel because of such “razzmatazz”.
Yii:: Yii on the other hand has a pretty simple outlook where you can call the database from one model AND write code easily without creating many files.
7) RESOURCES AND SUPPORT LARAVEL VS YII2
Laravel:: Laravel has a large community with good support and it’s growing every day. However, it is a new framework(Since 2012) as compared to others.
Yii: As Yii is an old framework (Since 2008) and has many developers associated with it already, it offers better support to developers with it’s larger community.
8) AUDIENCE
Laravel:: Laravel is a very focused framework which targets only web developers.
Yii:: Yii is for a broader set of audience. It caters to beginners, web developers, system administrators, media and publishing and research & development.
LARAVEL VS YII: COMPARISON TABLE
