Why would anyone want to use another PHP framework than Yii2? Give me some serious seasons if you have any. (If you really want/need the full DI deal just wait for v3, which I'm truly not convinced about)

I'm just thinking over and over again how I love Yii2! To me it's just impeccable! And fast! And I have built some quite serious stuff.

Of course there are some small inconveniences here and there, but ANY framework or system will have that. Usually with other systems I have used I can put a finger on this and that really annoying thing, but Yii2 is just perfect! So easy and logical to use, so easy to debug, so perfectly well-balanced in complexity versus clean and understandable code - and if it lacks anything, it's easy to enhance it! It's just such a joy to work with - I'm looking so much forward to it every time I need to do something in Yii2! I mean, what more do you want?! Even the documentation is awesome - something you can say of only a very few projects!

I have never come across something as elegant as Yii2 so I really have my doubts that Laravel or any other would be up to par... CakePHP certainly isn't. And when I tried Laravel back then I couldn't even get it to work out of the box.

Sorry, I just couldn't keep it in any longer!!

    A lot of "it depends", I think. I haven't used any of them in awhile, because we don't use any of them for the one PHP app I work on on my job, and don't think I ever used any version of Yii other than taking a not-deep look at it at one point.

    Unless things have changed a lot recently, Laravel seemed to have a majority of use -- at least among companies looking to hire PHP devs, so that was a good motivation to learn it.

    As far as if just using for projects you make for/by yourself, you can obviously use whatever works best for you. As long as Yii2 is being actively maintained and you're happy with whatever you may want/need in terms of additional components, then 🤷 . My experience with Laravel was that it was well maintained, there were many available add-ons that could be added via compose, and good training materials at laracasts.com; so it seemed good to me. But like I said, I have no basis of comparison for Yii. But maybe it's like the Python world, where you use Django if you need lots of bells and whistles, but Flask if you just need enough to get something relatively simple done and out the door?

      That's a bad way to phrase a framework debate. I get you "love Yii2" and I hope you keep using it with success. For many of us there's nothing in particular standing out there.

      [That's how reddit-quoting works, right?]

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