Item: Yii Framework
Rating: 8
Author: Shameemah Kurzawa

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Yii Framework is used by the PHP team to develop customer portals. We do a lot of REST API integration with our internal applications. It helps providing and collecting information from customers.

Pros and Cons

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)

There should be more flexibility to extend or add capability for theming
Provide in-build REST API integration tool rather than using 3rd party
More hands on documentation around consuming REST API and access control

Return on Investment

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.