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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

How the controller sends data to view


In the previous paragraph, we have seen how to display the content view. However, the view should only be responsible for displaying data, and not for manipulation. Consequently, any work on data should be done in controller action and then passed to view.

The render() method in the action of the controller has a second parameter, which is an array whose keys are names of variables, and values are the content of these variables available in view context.

Now, let's move all data manipulation of our itemsList example in controller, leaving out just the code to format the output (such as HTML).

The following is the content of the actionItemsList() controller:

public function actionItemsList()
{
  $newsList = [
    [ 'title' => 'First World War', 'date' => '1914-07-28' ],
    [ 'title' => 'Second World War', 'date' => '1939-09-01' ],
    [ 'title' => 'First man on the moon', 'date' => '1969-07-20' ]
  ];

  return $this->render('itemsList...