Yii Framework is vary strong and powerful PHP framework for robust applications. We can follow various YII topics in this discussion.
1) Create New YII Application:
Yii can support multiple applications with single instance of core framework.
So we can keep framework folder in any location. Just need to call framework/yii.php in application root index.php file as
$yii=dirname(__FILE__)."/../yii-1.1.10.r3566/framework/yii.php";