7 reasons to switch from Drupal to Yii

Yii was much faster than Drupal for our site with 150,000 nodes (each with a rewritten URL) and 50,000 visitors per day. Yes, we were working crazy hours for those 30 days (and the following 15), but it was worth it. The time that we previously spent working around Drupal's slow queries was put to better use, and it was a lot more fun to develop on Yii than on Drupal. The real benefit of Yii came later when we redesigned our site. With Yii's MVC, we only had to change 2 layout files vs a few dozen in Drupal.

Drupal isn't the best way to avoid starting from scratch
If Drupal is a framework, only Rube Goldberg could love it
Community-contributed modules are prone to featuritis and the bugs that result from unneeded complexity.
Drupal has PHP 4 baggage.
Don't want Drupal 6 or 7 to slow down a Drupal 5 site? Deal with an outdated jQuery.
Drupal's field API/content construction kit (CCK) will drive you crazy, and it's part of Drupal 7 core
Drupal is a LOT slower than Yii.

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Yii Framework Is Ruling the Computer World

During a recent survey, researchers found out that the top PHP frameworks of 2012 are as follows

•Yii Framework

•CodeIgniter

•CakePHP

•Symfony

•PHPDevShell

•Prado

•Akelos

•eZ Components

Yii, which stands for Yes It Is and read as 'wee', is a PHP framework. It is well known to be one of the best most creative and easy to use PHP 5 web applications. Adding to its overwhelming success is the fact that it is open source which in other words means free. The applications created with Yii are creative, dry designed and helps rapid development.

Yii is fast as it uses the "lazy loading" technique. Lazy loading means any class or object wouldn't be called or loaded until it is required. This helps the application put less weight as well. The latest PHP version has a lot of new functionalities and there are few frameworks like cake PHP or Codeigniter which are already reaping the benefits. But no framework is as efficient in using the full benefits of new PHP versions as Yii itself. Moreover the caching support is excellent which means applications developed using Yii load even faster.

The latest Yii version was released in late June, 2011. It has rich features like DAO, MVC, Active records, and caching, testing, authentication and can work with Ajax seamlessly. In this age, when hacking and cracking is a redundant process, Yii also provides security against common hacking practices like SQL injection, output filtering, prevention from scripting especially cross-site scripting etc. Logic and presentation has also been clearly separated.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/7401546

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