Yii is indeed very powerful, especially if you take advantage of the 'magic' and generators for form output and handling. I've only spent a few days with it tho

Yii is indeed very powerful, especially if you take advantage of the 'magic' and generators for form output and handling. I've only spent a few days with it though as that particular project fell through. Not sure if I'll ever go back to it as I am not really a fan of the syntax and it took me quite long to find out how to do certain things in the given online docs. Might be just me though and really, the first thing I'd say about Yii is that it has got a lot of 'power' under the hood, more than any other available stable PHP frameworks I have seen. Symfony is probably the only other one in that league.