Comparing Laravel and Yii2

Routing Laravel

• Easy routing in Laravel
• Map a Closure to a route without using controller
• Separate file for routing config
• Http verb can be restricted in routing config

Route::get(‘foo’, function () {
 return ‘Hello World’;
});
Route::get(‘/user’, ‘UserController@getUser’);
Route::post(‘/user’, ‘UserController@createUser’);

Routing Yii2

• Little Complex
• Can’t map a Closure to a routing
• Part of main config file
• Http verb can be restricted in controller

[
    echo Url::to(['user'])
]

Session Laravel

• Provide an easy way to extend session and write own session service
• Out of box support for Memcached, Redis and mysql db session
• We cann’t use php $_SESSION

// $request is instance of Request class.
$request->session()->get('key');
$request->session()->put('key','value');
$request->session()->has('key');

Session Yii2

• Provides extensions to support Memcached, Redis and mysql db session
• We can use php $_SESSIONinstead of Yii session.

// Yii::$app->session is a component
Yii::$app->session->get('key');
Yii::$app->session->set('key','value');
Yii::$app->session->has('key');

CACHE LARAVEL

• Provide an easy way to extend cache and write own cache service
• Out of box support for Memcached, Redis and mysql db cache
• Does not provide query caching and cache dependency

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