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Dear All, I'm after some advice here, I hope you can help me. My company is an IBM iSeries (Mainframe) software company who are recently in the process of upgrading our old legacy code to use more modern solutions. One of our solutions is to use PHP along with some third party APIs to call applications written in the legacy code (RPG) and access the DB2 database. We have a working version of this now but we are looking to standardise our code and make it clearer by using a PHP framework so I have been analysing different frameworks and this is how I have ended up on this excellent site. So my question for you is:- As we are calling a DB2 database via SQL and using APIs to access functions in a different language, can Yii still be used as the framework? Looking at the tutorials etc, there is lots of examples of setting up code in MySQL etc and so I was wondering how rigid this is. Can we plug in our own classes etc for our model into Yii and how easy is it to do this? In other words, we want to use some of the features of the framework (MVC, front controller etc) but not everything. Is this possible? Hopefully this make sense and I am not just waffling on! Thanks in advance for any help you can give me. Martin C