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+<p align="center">
+    <a href="http://www.yiiframework.com/" target="_blank">
+        <img src="https://www.yiiframework.com/files/logo/yii.png" width="400" alt="Yii Framework" />
+    </a>
+    <h1 align="center">Yii Framework Demo Project</h1>
+    <br>
+</p>
+
+[Yii Framework] is a modern framework designed to be a solid foundation for your PHP application.
+
+It's intended to show and test all yii features.
+
+[Yii Framework]: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii-core
+
+[![Latest Stable Version](https://poser.pugx.org/yiisoft/yii-demo/v/stable.png)](https://packagist.org/packages/yiisoft/yii-demo)
+[![Total Downloads](https://poser.pugx.org/yiisoft/yii-demo/downloads.png)](https://packagist.org/packages/yiisoft/yii-demo)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/yiisoft/yii-demo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/yiisoft/yii-demo)
+