Yii 2.0 Part 1 - Creating an application on Windows 7

Briefly discusses the merits of using Yii 2 as a framework and then describes how we download and create a Yii 2 application, as well as some of the problems with Composer. It then describes setting up the site in IIS7 ready to test and develop. The source code for the tutorial is on github here: but please note that changes are continually made to the repository as the tutorials are made and might not match the tutorial exactly.