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Yii2 Application Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Sergey Ivanov, Andrew Bogdanov, Dmitry Eliseev
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Yii2 Application Development Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Sergey Ivanov, Andrew Bogdanov, Dmitry Eliseev

Overview of this book

Yii is a free, open source web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development time and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product. Being extremely performance optimized, Yii is a perfect choice for any size project. However, it has been built with sophisticated, enterprise applications in mind. You have full control over the configuration from head-to-toe (presentation-to-persistence) to conform to your enterprise development guidelines. It comes packaged with tools to help test and debug your application, and has clear and comprehensive documentation. This book is a collection of Yii2 recipes. Each recipe is represented as a full and independent item, which showcases solutions from real web-applications. So you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 fast and without tears. All recipes are explained with step-by-step code examples and clear screenshots. Yii2 is like a suit that looks great off the rack, but is also very easy to tailor to fit your needs. Virtually every component of the framework is extensible. This book will show how to use official extensions, extend any component, or write a new one. This book will help you create modern web applications quickly, and make sure they perform well using examples and business logic from real life. You will deal with the Yii command line, migrations, and assets. You will learn about role-based access, security, and deployment. We’ll show you how to easily get started, configure your environment, and be ready to write web applications efficiently and quickly.

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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Yii2 Application Development Cookbook Third Edition
Yii2 Application Development Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Fundamentals
Fundamentals
Introduction
Installing the framework
Application templates
Dependency injection container
Service locator
Code generation
Configuring components
Working with events
Using external code
2
Routing, Controllers, and Views
Routing, Controllers, and Views
Introduction
Configuring URL rules
Generating URLs
Using regular expressions in URL rules
Using a base controller
Using standalone actions
Creating a custom filter
Displaying static pages
Using flash messages
Using the controller context in a view
Reusing views with partials
Using blocks
Using decorators
Defining multiple layouts
Pagination and sorting data
3
ActiveRecord, Model, and Database
ActiveRecord, Model, and Database
Introduction
Getting data from a database
Defining and using multiple DB connections
Customizing the ActiveQuery class
Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
Automating timestamps
Setting up an author automatically
Setting up a slug automatically
Transactions
Replication and read-write splitting
Implementing single table inheritance
4
Forms
Forms
Introduction
Writing your own validators
Uploading files
Adding and customizing CaptchaWidget
Customizing Captcha
Creating a custom input widget
Tabular input
Conditional validation
Complex forms with multiple models
AJAX-dependent drop-down list
AJAX validation
Creating a custom client-side validation
5
Security
Security
Introduction
Authentication
Using controller filters
Preventing XSS
Preventing SQL injections
Preventing CSRF
Using RBAC
Encrypting/Decrypting data
6
RESTful Web Services
RESTful Web Services
Introduction
Creating a REST server
Authentication
Rate limiting
Versioning
Error handling
7
Official Extensions
Official Extensions
Introduction
Authentication client
SwiftMailer e-mail library
Faker fixture data generator
Imagine library
MongoDB driver
ElasticSearch engine adapter
Gii code generator
Pjax jQuery plugin
Redis database driver
8
Extending Yii
Extending Yii
Introduction
Creating helpers
Creating model behaviors
Creating components
Creating reusable controller actions
Creating reusable controllers
Creating a widget
Creating CLI commands
Creating filters
Creating modules
Creating a custom view renderer
Creating a multilanguage application
Making extensions distribution-ready
9
Performance Tuning
Performance Tuning
Following best practices
Speeding up session handling
Using cache dependencies and chains
Profiling an application with Yii
Leveraging HTTP caching
Combining and minimizing assets
Running Yii2 on HHVM
10
Deployment
Deployment
Introduction
Changing the Yii directory layout
Moving an application webroot
Changing an advanced application template
Moving configuration parts into separate files
Using multiple configurations to simplify the deployment
Implementing and executing cron jobs
Maintenance mode
Deployment tools
11
Testing
Testing
Introduction
Testing application with Codeception
Unit testing with PHPUnit
Unit testing with Atoum
Unit testing with Behat
12
Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling
Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling
Introduction
Using different log routes
Analyzing the Yii error stack trace
Logging and using the context information
Displaying custom errors
Custom panel for debug extension
Index
Index

About the Authors

Andrew Bogdanov is a seasoned web developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than six years of experience in industrial development. Since 2010 he has been interested in Yii and MVC frameworks. He has taken part in projects written in Yii such as a work aggregator for a UK company, high-load projects, real-estate projects, and development of private projects for the government.

He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP and MySQL, which includes Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP, and so on. Also, having good hands in integrating third-party APIs such as Payment gateways (Paypal, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn), he is very good in slicing and frontend. So he can provide full information about Yii framework.

He is also well-versed in PHP/MYSQL, Yii 1.x.x, Yii 2.x.x, Ajax, JQuery, MVC frameworks, Python, LAMP, HTML/CSS, Mercurial, Git, AngularJs, and adaptive markup. You can also visit his blog http://jehkinen.com.

In his free time he likes to visit and talk with new people and discuss web development problems. He is currently working with professionals http://2amigos.us.

Dmitry Eliseev has been a web developer since 2008 and specializes in server-side programming on PHP and PHP frameworks.

Since 2012 he has authored his personal blog, http://elisdn.ru, about web development in general and about the Yii Framework particularly. His blog became a well-known resource in the Russian Yii community. He is an active member of a Russian-language forum http://yiiframework.ru.

Dmitry is interested in developmental best practices, software architectures, object-oriented programming, and other approaches.

He is an author and a presenter of practical courses about principles and best practices of object oriented programming and the use of version control systems. And also he is an author of webinars, the Yii2 Framework, and common developmental subjects. He practices teaching and counseling by development on frameworks and using of principles of software design and improvements of common code quality. This is his first book.

Alexander Makarov is an experienced engineer from Russia and has been a Yii framework core team member since 2010. Before joining the Yii core team, he participated in the CodeIgniter community growth in Russia. In 2009, he finished the Russian translation of the framework documentation and created the Russian community website. In 2012, he released the Russian version of the book along with Russian community members. In the same year, he was the technical reviewer for three more books:

  • The Yii Book: Developing Web Applications Using the Yii PHP Framework, Larry Ullman

  • Web Application Development with Yii and PHP, Jeff Winesett

  • Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot, Lauren O'Meara and James Hamilton

In his free time, Alexander writes technical blog at http://rmcreative.ru/, speaks at conferences, and enjoys movies, music, traveling, photography, and languages. He currently resides in Voronezh, Russia with his beloved wife and daughter.

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