Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications.

Yii comes with rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

Three steps to build your application rapidly:

1. You create the database;
2. Yii generates the base PHP code;
3. You customize the code to fit your exact needs.