🆚 ThinkPHP vs. Yii Framework
- 📈 Yii Framework is much more popular than ThinkPHP.
- 🌎 Yii Framework is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia.
- 🌍 ThinkPHP is more popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
ThinkPHPType
Backend framework
Backend framework
About
ThinkPHP is a Chinese open-source, object-oriented web application framework based on 
PHP.
Yii is an open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.
It includes an implementation of the Active Record design pattern for database interaction, RESTful API support, multi-tier caching, role-based access control, and Gii, a code generation tool.
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Backend Frameworks › Rank #25
Backend Frameworks › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Yii Framework technology is 11 times more popular than ThinkPHP.
Total websites
Market share
Backend Frameworks
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Yii Framework is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia, while ThinkPHP is more popular in China.
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
China
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Ukraine
Australia
Switzerland
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Hong Kong in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Vietnam in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Kazakhstan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uzbekistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Yii Framework is more popular than ThinkPHP in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Real Estate
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Laravel
Symfony
Livewire🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.