Read tips about PHP frameworks and Yii from Yii 2 co-author Alexander Makarov.

The PHP development team released version 7.3.0 that comes with numerous improvements and new features such as

• Flexible Heredoc and Nowdoc Syntax
• PCRE2 Migration
• Multiple MBString Improvements
• LDAP Controls Support
• Improved FPM Logging
• Windows File Deletion Improvements
• Several Deprecations

The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog. The migration guide is available in the PHP Manual.

Both Yii 2.0 and upcoming Yii 3.0 releases will be comatible with new PHP release.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Gii extension version 2.0.8.

Additionally to bug fixes, there is a new option in model generator that allows standardized capitals in class names:

SOME_TABLE -> SomeTable
Other_Table -> OtherTable

instead of

SOME_TABLE -> SOMETABLE
Other_Table -> OtherTable

See the CHANGELOG for details.

Another issue of development notes is out. Learn about Yii 3.0 development, written down Yii values and other things.

Another issue of Yii development notes with some 3.0 details.

A wiki article about getting various information from current locale.

Yiigist is a directory of Packages for your projects on Yii framework. It helps you find package you want and provide sorting by different criteria as well as filtering by framework version. Great tool for searching libraries before you roll yours!

Check it out!

Latest video in Yii 2.0 series by Luke Briner is about rapidly building REST APIs.

Yii team tagged new version of Yii 1.1 that accumulates security and PHP 7 compatibiltiy fixes made for a year.

Another issue of Yii development notes by Alexander Makarov. Have a good read.