[rdoherty]

Out of all the PHP frameworks I've used (CakePHP, Kohana, Laravel, Symfony) I have to say Yii is the one of the best.

It's hard to describe why, I think mostly because it feels like it was built and designed by one person who had a lot of experience with other frameworks and knew PHP inside and out.

[mattm]

I agree. The only issue I had with it is that it returns records in an array instead of a Rowset object like Zend Framework. But it contains much less of the verbosity than Zend and is much easier to use and separates things like validation and authorization in a much more elegant way.

[bigtunacan]

Never was a fan of Yii myself. The one PHP framework I really do like though is the Fat-Free Framework.

[girvo]

FFF is pretty rad, as is Slim framework. I like Slim so much I've been cloning it for Hack[0]. With the next week off work, I'm looking forward to getting it close to parity!

[0] https://github.com/LeanFramework/Lean

[bigtunacan]

Cool. My personal preference is towards these leaner micro-frameworks in general. I've looked at Slim, seems cool, but never worked with it. Good luck on your project.