Yii Framework 2.0

[jayrulez (Waprave)]

As far as I’m concern, Yii is doing exactly what you are writing about. The whole 2.0 rewrite idea is to make Yii able to use latest additions to newest version of PHP - that is 5.3. The only difference is that Yii core team is indeed small and all major changes needs more time. But even so I believe that this guys are doing really, really good work!

What seems to be the problem? If you already think that Yii will stay behind, without even waiting for what 2.0 release may bring, I believe the best idea would be to come back to Zend or Symphony!

I think you have misunderstood my disposition with regards to my post. Whenever I have a choice, Yii is always the framework I choose for development. Whenever I don’t have a choice, I always at least recommend Yii over other frameworks and even cms packages where it is plausible. I’ve used Zend in a single project, symfony: never. My wish is for Yii to be the best it can be and I do not mind waiting for the improvements one bit.

What I meant is that if Yii sacrifices potential improvements to preserve backwards compatibility in the next major release (What some ppl seem to be suggesting), they might be left behind.

I’ve been watchin symfony 2.0 and Zend 2.0 branches @ github and I’ve been seeing some interesting improvements. I want to see the same or even better in the next major release of Yii. Backwards compatibility is not an issue for me and if it was, then projects I have on 1.x i’d leave on 1.x unless I have a lot of free time to port it to 2.x. I’d be disappointed if Yii does like codeigniter(no name calling huh? and do no real improvements in the 2.0 release.

[quybmt2003]

At this moment, it is still too early to tell the details of our 2.0 plan. We had some scattered discussions about what 2.0 will be be within our developer team. However, they’re mainly about some big features. Since 2.0 will be a complete rewrite, we will take this chance to make our code more consistent and clean.

Although 2.0 will not be compatible with 1.x, we will still try to keep the similar concepts and usage patterns so that existing Yii developers won’t feel an abrupt change. Upgrading from 1.x to 2.0 will probably more difficult than from 1.0 to 1.1, however. In fact, we do not recommend doing such an upgrade for an existing Yii project.

The support deadline for 1.1 is temporarily set as Dec 31, 2012. This is the minimum we promise. Depending on the actual needs, we may extend (not shorten) this deadline to a further date.

Our focus currently is still 1.1, as we are all happily using it. We will bring up 2.0 discussions when we feel the time is coming.

Hi, Mr.qiang, Can i ask you a question? What feature of Yii will be improved, developed and deployed? thank you very much.