The Best 37 Yii Framework Alternatives

  • ImpressPages CMS

    ImpressPages is a PHP framework with admin panel. A new MVC engine is under the hood so you can customize ImpressPages in no time. Write your own plugins and themes to suit your and customers’ needs best.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted PHP

  • CodeIgniter

    PHP (version 4 or 5) framework with a thin model layer. Includes an ActiveRecord class for database agnostic (mostly) data retrieval. Good community support in its forums. Further development available via GitHub: https://github .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Laravel

    Laravel is a clean and classy PHP framework with minimal configuration and expressive syntax. RESTful routing; ORM; beautiful code.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails is an open source full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Ruby

  • Symfony

    Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web PHP

  • Agile Toolkit

    Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Zend Framework

    Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • CakePHP

    CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted PHP

  • Koa

    Expressive middleware for node.js using generators via co to make web applications and APIs more enjoyable to write. Koa's middleware flow in a stack-like manner...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • CORE Framework

    The CORE Framework is a next-generation .NET-based open source framework aimed to help accelerate web application development. The architecture follows the cutting-edge...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Silex PHP micro-framework

    Silex - The PHP micro-framework based on Symfony2 Components Silex is a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders of Symfony2 and Pimple and also...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • phunction

    Small and carefully designed PHP 5.2+ HMVC framework.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Pedestal

    Pedestal is a web application framework written in Clojure that aims to bring both the language and its principles to client and server-side development.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Akelos

    Port of Ruby on Rails development framework and designed to work for PHP4 and PHP5. The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • bitcore

    A pure and powerful JavaScript Bitcoin library or blockchain library.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac JavaScript

  • TomP2P

    A P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Qcodo

    Code Less. Do More. The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.

    Free Open Source Web

  • UserFrosting

    Whether it's a private forum for your WoW guild, an employee management system for your small business, or the next big social network, you want to get started on...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted