Initializing the project

At this point, you should be fairly familiar with how to initialize a basic Yii framework project. Go ahead and create the base folder structures, and create the index.php, yiic, yiic.bat, and yiic.php files. Then in the webroot directory of our application, create a folder called vendors. This folder will be used for all of our Composer dependencies for us.

Create a MySQL user and database

If you haven't already created a MySQL user, password, and database for the project, do so now. From the MySQL command line, you can run the following commands to do this:

CREATE USER 'ch3_reminders'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ch3_reminders';
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `ch3_reminders`;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `ch3\_reminders` . * TO 'ch3_reminders'@'localhost';

Creating a Yii configuration file

Our Yii configuration file will be slightly different than our previous configuration files due to the use of our MySQL database. We...

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Yii Project Blueprints

By : Charles R. Portwood ll

Yii Project Blueprints

By: Charles R. Portwood ll

Overview of this book

Initializing the project

Create a MySQL user and database

Creating a Yii configuration file

Yii Project Blueprints

By : Charles R. Portwood ll

Yii Project Blueprints

By: Charles R. Portwood ll

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