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Yii Project Blueprints

By : Charles R. Portwood ll

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Yii Project Blueprints

3.5 (2)

By: Charles R. Portwood ll

Overview of this book

This book is for intermediate-to-advanced level Yii developers who want to master the Yii framework and develop real-world applications. You should have experience of working with Yii, PHP 5, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. A Task-management Application

1. A Task-management Application

Describing the project

The database

Initializing the project

Creating the database with migrations

Creating models with Gii

Creating the presentation layer

Finishing touches

Summary

2. Discovering What's Nearby

2. Discovering What's Nearby

Describing the project

Designing the database

Initializing the project

Creating the database

Creating the locations model

Importing the data feed

Google APIs

Creating the presentation layer

Summary

3. Scheduled Reminders

3. Scheduled Reminders

Prerequisites

Describing the project

Initializing the project

Creating the database

Creating models

Searching for events and displaying them

Creating the controller to manage users

Sending e-mail reminders

Summary

4. Developing an Issue-tracking Application

4. Developing an Issue-tracking Application

Prerequisites

Describing the project

Initializing the project

Managing users

Implementing the issue-management component

Handling inbound e-mail parsing

Summary

5. Creating a Microblogging Platform

5. Creating a Microblogging Platform

Prerequisites

Describing the project

Initializing the project

Enabling users to manage their information

Viewing a timeline of shares

Sharing new content

Searching for shares

Sharing on Twitter with HybridAuth

Summary

6. Building a Content Management System

6. Building a Content Management System

Prerequisites

Describing the project

Initializing the project

Exploring the skeleton project

Displaying and managing content

Viewing and managing categories

Social authentication with HybridAuth

Summary

7. Creating a Management Module for the CMS

7. Creating a Management Module for the CMS

Prerequisites

What are modules?

Describing the project

Initializing the project

Creating the module

Adding custom routes to a module

Creating the controllers

Migrating the functionality to the module

Uploading files

Strategies for deploying our application

Summary

8. Building an API for the CMS

8. Building an API for the CMS

Prerequisites

Describing the project

Initializing the project

Extending Yii to return data

Authenticating users

Implementing CRUD actions

Summary

Index

Index

Designing the database

With the core components of our application identified, we can now get started with developing the database. Let's start with creating our locations table.

Locations

When developing applications that import data from an external source, you can often take advantage of the structure of the external feed to determine what your own database tables should look like. Provided with the chapter resources at protected/data/ is a file called parks.json that serves as our external data source. Since the data in this feed is consistent, let's take a look at a single item in the feed:

{
   "name" : "Cancer Survivors' Garden",
   "lat" : "41.884242",
   "long" : "-87.617404",
   "city" : "Chicago",
   "state" : "IL"
}

A single element in our data feed is composed of the name of the location, its latitude and longitude coordinates, and the city and state of the location...

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