Can Yii Do That ?

[risbac]

I know that "Yii" means "yes it is", but as i'm a total newbie in Yii programming, I would appreciate if experts could confirm is this framework is a good choice for my projects. 

First, sorry about my frenglish, I hope I will be clear enough.

 

I want to develop two different websites. 

First one is some kind of "Chuck Norris facts" website. Visitors will be able to publish very short messages (probably around 140 characters, maybe less). Anonymously, or with an account. Then I want to display random messages, or the most popular ones (so I need to add buttons to "like", as well as the usual buttons to share on social medias). The rights of the visitors will be basic : delete a message, add new ones, like other messages. 

 

One important point is that I want visitors to be able to log in using their Gmail/Facebook/Twitter/others account. 

 

The second website will require that visitors create an account. Then they will add connections to various accounts they have on other websites (using OAuth for most of them), and the website will then perform data synchronisation between those other websites by connecting to their API. It will show them the synchronisation status, and maybe allow some manual transfer of information. So most of the job will be about connecting to APIs, retrieving informations, transforming them and sending them to other APIs. 

 

 

Would Yii fit with both projects ? For the first one, I'm quite sure it will fit from what I read. I never used a framework, but I developped a few websites in PHP. I'm not an expert developper, but I think I can learn fast, I read the tutorial of this website and found it quite clear even without looking at the code yet. 

 

Thanks in advance for your comments !

[Larry]

Yes, Yii would work for either project. Which is to say that you could use any framework (or no framework at all). I'd be inclined to become fairly comfortable with programming sites from scratch before adopting a framework, however. The framework will do 80% of the work for you easily, but if you're not really solid in your skills, the last 20% can be murderous.