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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

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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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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

Exploring the skeleton project

There are actually a lot of different things going on in the background to make this work even if this is just a 404 error. Before we start doing any development, let's take a look at a few of the classes that have been provided in our skeleton project in the protected/components folder.

Extending models from a common class

The first class that has been provided to us is an ActiveRecord extension called CMSActiveRecord that all of our models will stem from. This class allows us to reduce the amount of code that we have to write in each class. For now, we'll simply add CTimestampBehavior and the afterFind() method we've used in previous chapters to store the old attributes for the time the need arises to compare the changed attributes with the new attributes:

class CMSActiveRecordCMSActiveRecord extends CActiveRecord
{
   public $_oldAttributes = array();

   public function behaviors()
   {
      return array(
         'CTimestampBehavior' => array(
      ...
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