Getting started with Yii (Simple)
We will start with the basic setup of the Yii environment; that is, connecting to a database server and automated generation of Gii and forms with Yii.
Getting ready
This book assumes that you are familiar with the PHP development environment and have a basic development environment set up for PHP application development.
Download the Yii framework from http://www.yiiframework.com/ and extract its framework folder outside your Public_html
folder or web root folder. Your application will refer to Yii Bootstrap, Yii.php
, located inside the Framework
folder.
How to do it...
Let's move to creating the web application. We will use the command-line utility of Yii to generate the new Yii application.
Open the command prompt or a console under Linux.
Change the current folder to where the framework has been extracted and enter the following command:
yii> framework/yiic webapp webRoot/sampleapp
Access the newly generated application at
http://localhost/sampleapp/index.php
.
How it works...
The command will ask you for confirmation and will then generate the basic structure of the Yii application. You can find the details of the directory structure at http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/155/the-directory-structure-of-the-yii-project-site/.
Yii has already created a few simple pages with a Contact Us form and a Login form. Following is the screenshot of the default Contact Us form: