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Yii2 By Example

By : Fabrizio Caldarelli
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Yii2 By Example

By: Fabrizio Caldarelli

Overview of this book

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. It provides fast, secure, and professional features to create robust projects, however, this rapid development requires the ability to organize common tasks together to build a complete application. It's all too easy to get confused; this is where this book comes in. This book contains a series of practical project examples for developers starting from scratch. Each section contains the most relevant theories for every topic as you walk through developing each project, focusing on key aspects that commonly confuse users. The book starts with all the framework’s basic concepts, such as controllers and views, to introduce you to Yii and creating your first application, a simple news reader. You will be learn to configure URL rules to make a pretty URL, essential for search engine optimization. Next, you will walk through Model and ActiveRecord, key concepts in database interaction. The second application you will develop is a reservation system that allows you to manage rooms, customers, and reservations. For this, you will use database connection through SQL and ActiveRecord. More complex than the first one, this application will introduce you to the advanced template of Yii 2, splitting the app into two parts: a frontend for all visitors and a backend for the admin. Finally, you will move on to the last two applications: one that allows connections from remote clients, through RESTful components of Yii 2, and another that creates and organizes automatic tasks using the console application structure of Yii 2.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Yii2 By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring a REST app in the advanced template


Before using the advanced template, it is advisable to configure RESTful Web Services, since, as you saw in previous chapters, this configuration allows you to easily add a new application in the same project.

Yii provides many built-in features to create RESTful Web Services and it reduces the code needed to implement it that is always structured with models, controllers, and actions.

These are its main features:

  • Default actions (index, view, create, update, delete, and options) in yii\rest\ActiveController, which is the base controller suggested to override

  • A response format selectable from input

  • Customized authentication and authorization

  • Caching and rate limiting

Yii applies well-established knowledge about RESTful Web Services creation, such as how to present metadata in the response output. So, it is advisable that we follow the framework guidelines as far as possible; in this way, we will write commonly manageable REST APIs.

The first thing...