I am new to Yii and I really like it much. But I found the form framework of yii is not so easy as that of symfony. In symfony a form is an instance of sfForm class which consists widgets(form fields) and validators. You can add/remove form fields , set/changed validators for these fields and all is done in one file. While in Yii it seems not so easy to modify a form later on: you should modify both the form model and the view files. I hope Yii could improve the form framework .