How can a novice php developer understand the framework?

Question

Yii

I have some knowledge of OOP, but I do not know how to understand a huge project (framework yii). Manuals and examples are passed, but the general understanding of system did not come. Thanks in advance for your advice.

Answer 1

If you read everything and did not understand anything, then alas ......
Try to write something using examples from the Internet, maybe understanding will come with practice.
And so 100500 different video tutorials, books, records on frameworks, from A to Z, from A to Z, read, watch, delve into, or do you want a spell that will help you figure it out?

Answer 2

Try to write a simple yii blog until you understand.
Or if you have time, try to quit yii and read about another php framework, so fundamental things are determined in your head, and against the background of knowing the basic, it will be easier to learn the features of a separate framework (this is me from my practice).

Answer 3

This is normal, there is nothing wrong with that. The speed of assimilation and perception is different for everyone.
I myself went through this, insights and understanding come with practical experience.
The main thing is not to stop.

Answer 4

You just need to write more code, albeit cycling, but that's for the best. After some time, do "work on the bugs", think about how you can optimize your application, evaluate the weaknesses. When you run into problems, you can study how they were solved in frameworks, what architecture is used, and so on. If you just study the framework, you may not understand why it was done that way.

Answer 5

Beginning PHP developers don't need frameworks. Write in pure PHP. You should not take on a job if you feel that it is beyond your power and it is too early for you.

Answer 6

I think you need to understand a little more about OOP and read and understand MVC first. Without this, you will definitely not understand anything.

Answer 7

Before I got acquainted with YII, I sat on CI (CodeIgniter) with a lot of examples and cool documentation. I can say that thanks to CI I got some skills that helped me to master Yii later. And a friend met Yii and went to work in the studio and there he learned about Yii and told me. Well, I went to storm Yii according to the documentation from A to Z, then third-party start/whales went and off we went. And I have already started to rewrite everything in Yii and am still satisfied.
I have known Yii for about 3 years and am surprised every time I find something new in it)
By the way, according to Yii, at least the first one has a bunch of ready-made projects with their detailed creation. I also advise you to read the Yii forums and blogs (for example, Dmitry Eliseev's interesting blog) Oh, and learn to read the documentation and there will be no problems.

Answer 8

Forget about frameworks, not everyone needs them