I have been trying to learn Yii without luck. I find Zend Framework, Kohana, Code Igniter among other frameworks much easier to learn than Yii. The documentation also su**s. Can you post links to easy-to-understand and well written tutorials/articles? The official documentation is filled with grammar errors and seems to be rushed...
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I've started here http://blog.dmcinsights.com/series/learning-the-yii-framework/
Then I did the online blog tutorial
A very good place to search/ask for info is the forum. The community is nice and will always answer you very fast.
Yes, the blog tutorial is filled with typos and errors of some sort. But IMHO, this is were you develop more skills. You have to actually search. Or if you're lazy, the comments after the tutorial tell you what to do. But usually, after the half of the tutorial, you'll begin to understand why it is not working and how to solve it. This is, from my point of view, the best way to learn.
Don't give up, Yii is very nice and powerful. Yii is the faster fully-loaded framework after symfony 2.