Yii 2.0 Public Preview

Thank you for choosing Yii - a high-performance component-based PHP framework.

If you are looking for a production-ready PHP framework, please use Yii v1.1.

Yii 2.0 is still under heavy development. We may make significant changes without prior notices. Yii 2.0 is not ready for production use yet.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

  apps/                ready-to-use Web apps built on Yii 2
      basic/           a simple app supporting user login and contact page
  build/               internally used build tools
  docs/                documentation
  yii/                 framework source files
  tests/               tests of the core framework code

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by Yii is that your Web server supports PHP 5.3.?.

DOCUMENTATION

For 1.1 users, you may refer to Upgrading from Yii 1.1 to have a general idea of what has changed in 2.0.

We are writing more documentation to get you started and learn more in depth.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Your participation to Yii 2 development is very welcome!

You may participate in the following ways:

• Report issues
• Give us feedback or start a design discussion
• Fix issues, develop features, write/polish documentation
  • Before you start, please adopt an existing issue (labelled with "ready for adoption") or start a new one to avoid duplicated efforts.
  • Please submit a merge request after you finish development.