shawc

Agree with you that this function call should be removed when PHP 6 is released.

Relying on include path means extra time in including files, which is something most frameworks are trying to avoid. It is perfectly fine you use include path in personal projects, though.

Yii has complete implementation of Active Record. I guess what you saw is only its base class CModel. Please take a look at CActiveRecord and CFormModel.

Not that php 6 is coming out next week but that framework would fail with it because of it dependence on get_magic_quotes_gpc() which may or may not be an easy fix but i would think a newer framework would follow most common standards and since magic quotes are a bad idea(which is why it is finally being removed in php 6) and no one has ever said that magic quotes are great as long as i has been doing PHP programming(2 years) so who knows what other weird stuff that framework does. I would love to ask the lead developer why he/she decided to support magic quotes. From where did you learn that Yii depends on get_magic_quotes_gpc()? On the contrary, Yii tries to eliminate the effect of get_magic_quotes_gpc() if magic quotes is enabled.