Magento Open Source vs. Yii Framework

It's well suited for large eCommerce stores as it requires much effort to set up and the development cost for setting it up is high. It's less appropriate to use Magento where you are looking for quick development and launch of the store. Also, it is required to have a developer or sometimes the entire tech team to manage an e-commerce store, so you may need to hire a few PHP developers.

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Yii is very well suited if you love to program with Object Oriented PHP. This framework uses OOP very well and if you know this pattern you'll love it. The same applies for its MVC architecture and if you come from formal software development education. Also if you are in a bussiness enviroment and need a stable framework. This is the tool for you. It uses very formal scheme but I would like more open and hackable framework, and for this Yii2 is not a good option. Also, if you like to have bleeding edge technologies I don't recommend this framework.

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• Magento is perfect if our web design client likes a specific pre-made template and wants a fast solution.
• Magento allows us to customize its open-source code to create additional features and functionality.
• Magento saves small businesses time and money if they only need a simple solution.

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• Generating forms and integrates bootstrap
• Provides great CRUD functionality with active record
• Provides lots of useful HTML helper widgets for UI enhancement
• Provides good access control (RBAC)

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• Not the simplest of solutions to use or maintain from an end-user perspective
• Other platforms are better with regards to SEO in our experience
• Fairly sluggish and slow compared to other platforms without the correct server specification and performance optimization work.

• Maybe support to update their main components like jQuery or Boostrap. It's too attached with the included versions.
• Their view template engine is simple, doesn't offer support for better options like competition.
• Wiki can include more tutorials for common examples or problems.

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It's the dominant force in the SMB open source market. With the continued support of eBay/PayPal, Magento will continue to evolve and should be a market leader for some time.

We are in the process of migrating our old application to Yii Framework.

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Magento has a relly step learning curve. This means that you need to find experienced developers who can lead junior ones, otherwise the overall development process can be a disaster. However, once you are comfortable in developing on the platform, the customization capability are basically limitless and you can adapt the platform to any use case you can imagine. Also, there are many alredy developed marketplace modules that can solve, out of the box, many problems you may face.

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I think is really easy to use, it's not perfect but many developers with great experience will know how to exploit this framework to create great apps!

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It's has a really good support based on online documentation and official forums. But sometimes I wish there were a paid service where to report some urgent issues.

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You have to check their documentation, they explain everything so don't skip it.

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In looking at a different platform to migrate to from Magento 1, we looked primarily at Big Commerce, Shopify and Shopify Plus. Our host was very negative about Magento 2, but we determined after a couple years it was due to the fact it had even more complexity (and very different) than Magento 1. Shopify Plus was attractive, but the cost factor for two sites led us back to Magento 2.

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We have used Zend Framework. In comparison Yii Framework is much more lightweight and has smaller learning curve.

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• Delays in development leads to missed timelines and opportunity loss.
• High cost of development and maintenance may currently outweigh the growth.
• Better handling of customer and order information makes for better customer service.
• Excellent API has been a boon for integration with our ERP

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• Overall Yii has speed up our development and help to cut down on development cost.
• On the other hand, the bloated vendor library does cause space issues when we have high volume of applications on our servers.

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