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Yii Project Blueprints

Yii Project Blueprints

By : Charles R. Portwood ll
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Yii Project Blueprints

Yii Project Blueprints

3.5 (2)
By: Charles R. Portwood ll
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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.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. A Task-management Application
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1. A Task-management Application
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Describing the project
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The database
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Initializing the project
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Creating the database with migrations
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Creating models with Gii
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Creating the presentation layer
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Finishing touches
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Summary
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2. Discovering What's Nearby
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2. Discovering What's Nearby
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Describing the project
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Designing the database
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Initializing the project
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Creating the database
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Creating the locations model
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Importing the data feed
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Google APIs
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Creating the presentation layer
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Summary
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3. Scheduled Reminders
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3. Scheduled Reminders
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Prerequisites
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Describing the project
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Initializing the project
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Creating the database
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Creating models
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Searching for events and displaying them
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Creating the controller to manage users
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Sending e-mail reminders
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Summary
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4. Developing an Issue-tracking Application
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4. Developing an Issue-tracking Application
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Prerequisites
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Describing the project
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Initializing the project
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Managing users
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Implementing the issue-management component
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Handling inbound e-mail parsing
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Summary
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5. Creating a Microblogging Platform
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5. Creating a Microblogging Platform
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Prerequisites
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Describing the project
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Initializing the project
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Enabling users to manage their information
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Viewing a timeline of shares
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Sharing new content
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Searching for shares
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Sharing on Twitter with HybridAuth
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Summary
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6. Building a Content Management System
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6. Building a Content Management System
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Prerequisites
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Describing the project
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Initializing the project
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Exploring the skeleton project
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Displaying and managing content
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Viewing and managing categories
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Social authentication with HybridAuth
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7. Creating a Management Module for the CMS
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7. Creating a Management Module for the CMS
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Prerequisites
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What are modules?
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Describing the project
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Initializing the project
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Creating the module
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Adding custom routes to a module
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Creating the controllers
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Migrating the functionality to the module
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Uploading files
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Strategies for deploying our application
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Summary
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8. Building an API for the CMS
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8. Building an API for the CMS
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Prerequisites
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Describing the project
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Initializing the project
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Extending Yii to return data
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Authenticating users
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Implementing CRUD actions
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Index
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Index

Describing the project

As with our tasks application that was outlined in Chapter 1, A Task-management Application, we begin the development by getting a high-level overview of what the project will do and how our application will behave.

Searching nearby locations

The core component of this application is its ability to find other locations near an existing location. The easiest way to find this information is to take advantage of a third-party API. For this application, we'll be using the Google Places API, a web API that can provide nearby locations from given latitude and longitude coordinates.

Showing locations

Rather than simply telling our users what locations are near a given point of interest, we can enhance user experience by showing them the points of interest and nearby locations on a map. Many different mapping sources exist to show a map. For this application, we'll take advantage of another Google API, the Google Maps API.

Storing locations

To show the user the locations that are...

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