1.1.md

Awesome Yii 1.1 Framework

A curated list of awesome Yii Framework extensions, tutorials and other nice things. Inspired by awesome-php and other awesome lists.

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If you're looking for Yii 2.0, check its own list here.

Official Resources

• Official site
• Official community

Templates

• Smarty renderer - allows you to use Smarty 3 templates in views.
• Fenom renderer - allows to use Fenom template engine in views.
• Quicky renderer - allows to use Quicky template engine in views.
• Haml renderer - allows to use Haml in views.

Debug

• Yii2 debug panel port - debug panel for Yii 1.1 (ported from Yii 2).
• Debug toolbar - a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
• Db profiler - Yii profiler adjusted to deal with MySQL performance optimizations.

API

• RESTFullYii - full HTTP verb support for resources, the ability to offset, limit, sort, filter and manipulate related data.

Other

• EAV behavior - implements entity-attribute-value pattern.
• Nested Set Behavior - AR models behavior that allows to work with nested sets tree.
• Activerecord relation behavior - put together the awesomeness of many yii extensions that aim to improve saving of related records.

CMS (Yii based)

• HumHub - a flexible open source Social Network Kit.
• Phundament - universal HTML5 Application Boilerplates.
• Yupe - simple, lite and easy. Uses Yii, Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery.
• CiiMS - a high performance CMS blogging platform designed to be easy to use.
• yiicms - easy CMS with the basic modules and extensions to start.
• Craft - very slick commercial CMS with a free plan.

Tools and integrations

• YiiStorm - Yii framework integration for PhpStorm.
• NetBeans Yii Plugin - add navigation, code completion and command run support.

Books

• "Yii Project Blueprints" by Charles R. Portwood II.
• "Yii Application Development Cookbook" by Alexander Makarov.
• "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP" by Jeffrey Winesett.
• "The Yii Book" by Larry Ulman.
• "Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot" by Lauren J. O'Meara, James R. Hamilton III.
• "Beginning Yii [Video]" by Chris Backhouse.

Communities

• http://yiiframework.ru - Russian-speaking community.