Starting A New Serious Project In Yii 2.0

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Hi,

I am new to yii, but like it much by going through its features and creating demo apps in yii 1.1.4

I just want to ask you friends that if it is feasible to start a new project from lower medium to medium length in yii 2.0. the project span will be 4-5 yrs before upgrading it as per my requirements.

And there will be much in depth development within first 2-3 months and then for 6-9 months extending it. after that there will be smooth extensions to the project and maintenance of it.

Pl. suggest me for the version, i should go with…

Thanks in advance

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It depends.

Version 2 is cool, but still not completely documented. Also, until beta release (in a month or so) API can be modified.

So if you’re not afraid of getting your hands dirty digging in the core code for details, personally I recommend to start with v2, watch for critical commits on github and upgrade your code according to it.

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I’d go for 2.0 if you don’t have too strict deadlines.

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Thanks Guys

My dead line is to give a start-up working demo at the end of Feb.

my ultimate fear is if I may need to redesign the whole app from scratch. if 2.0 is stable enough to work for a project…

and if there are enough extensions available for a person like me as i am quite new to any PHP framework.

if you could suggest me a good book for in depth study of Yii2

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Yii2 is not ready yet, so there are no books currently.

There are a lot of them on version 1 though.

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last query please…

if in any case I may need to design the whole project from scratch/start because of updates to 2.0 or any further release in this series.

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If you are a newbie to any php framework you will need a lot of time to figure out how to work with yii. So to the time you are through with learning, yii2 will be in beta.

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I’m in the same position as you Naveen K. I’m about to pick up a new framework and keep coming back to Yii. I’ve considered using 2.0 from the get-go, but I think I’ll jump into version 1, and then upgrade my app to 2.0 when its stable. If my app needs rewriting extensively, so be it.

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thanks Chris

its always good to have company…