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Mastering Yii

By : Charles R. Portwood ll
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Mastering Yii

By: Charles R. Portwood ll

Overview of this book

The successor of Yii Framework 1.1, Yii 2 is a complete rewrite of Yii Framework, one of the most popular PHP 5 frameworks around for making modern web applications. The update embraces the best practices and protocols established with newer versions of PHP, while still maintaining the simple, fast, and extendable behavior found in its predecessor. This book has been written to enhance your skills and knowledge with Yii Framework 2. Starting with configuration and how to initialize new projects, you’ll learn how to configure, manage, and use every aspect of Yii2 from Gii, DAO, Query Builder, Active Record, and migrations, to asset manager. You'll also discover how to automatically test your code using codeception. With this book by your side, you’ll have all the skills you need to quickly create rich modern web and console applications with Yii 2.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Yii
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Modules, Widgets, and Helpers
13
Debugging and Deploying
Index

Chapter 1. Composer, Configuration, Classes, and Path Aliases

Before diving into Yii Framework 2, we need to take a look at how it is installed, how it is configured, and what the core building blocks of the framework are. In this chapter, we'll go over how to install the framework itself and prebuilt applications via a package management tool called Composer. We'll also cover some common configurations of both Yii Framework 2 and our web server, including making our applications aware of the environment they are running on and responding appropriately to that environment.

Note

The most common ways to reference Yii Framework 2 are Yii Framework 2, YF2, and Yii2. We'll be using these terms interchangeably throughout the book.