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Fat-Free vs Yii: What are the differences?

What is Fat-Free? PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust Web applications - fast. Fat-Free Framework makes it easy to build entire Web sites in a jiffy. With the same power and brevity as modern Javascript toolkits and libraries, F3 helps you write better-looking and more reliable PHP programs.

What is Yii? A high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

Fat-Free and Yii can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Open source" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Fat-Free, while over 36 developers mention "Open source" as the leading cause for choosing Yii.

Fat-Free and Yii are both open source tools. It seems that Yii with 4.86K GitHub stars and 2.22K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Fat-Free with 2.3K GitHub stars and 443 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Fat-Free and Yii
Dalton Tan
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This website was originally written in Yii as PHP was my main language back then. After learning Django, I realized just how quickly you could build a web app with less lines. So I migrated my website to Django in a week or two and managed to cut down the lines of code by half. Some of the lines saving came from the models, the views, and the expressiveness of Python. Django requires like config for the models and they provide many generic views that abstracts away common patterns.

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Pros of Fat-Free
Pros of Yii
  • 8
    Open source
  • 7
    Fast
  • 5
    Design pattern flexibility
  • 5
    Neat and Clean
  • 4
    API
  • 4
    SQL AND NOSQL ORM
  • 3
    1 FILE
  • 3
    Simple
  • 2
    Quickly develop
  • 42
    Open source
  • 33
    Code generator
  • 33
    Simple
  • 29
    Active record
  • 26
    Full featured
  • 21
    Documentation
  • 21
    High performance
  • 20
    Rapid development
  • 16
    Flexible
  • 11
    Mvc
  • 10
    Not bloated
  • 8
    Stable Release
  • 8
    Community
  • 8
    Amazing
  • 7
    View Helpers
  • 6
    Modular architecture
  • 6
    Long Term Support
  • 5
    Easy setup, easy develop
  • 1
    Easy

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Cons of Fat-Free
Cons of Yii
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    • 2
      Unnatural love of arrays
    • 1
      Promotes spagetti code
    • 1
      Too Opinionated
    • 1
      Promotes bad practice

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    What is Fat-Free?

    Fat-Free Framework makes it easy to build entire Web sites in a jiffy. With the same power and brevity as modern Javascript toolkits and libraries, F3 helps you write better-looking and more reliable PHP programs.

    What is Yii?

    Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

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