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Mastering Yii

Mastering Yii

By : Charles R. Portwood ll
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Mastering Yii

Mastering Yii

4.8 (5)
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.
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5. Modules, Widgets, and Helpers
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13. Debugging and Deploying
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Index

Configuring Gii


While Active Record models and forms can be generated by hand, in most cases, we'll want to automate the creation of this code. To achieve this, Yii2 provides a code generation tool called Gii, which can be executed both from the command line and from a web interface in order to create Active Record models that work with our database structure and forms that work with both our base models and Active Record models.

Unlike Yii1, Gii does not come prebundled with Yii2. In Yii2, nearly every module is available as a separate Composer package, which can be installed from the command-line interface. Consequently, we must use Composer to include Gii in our application. Since Gii is available as a composer package, we can include it in our application by running the following command from our command line:

$ composer require yiisoft/yii2-gii --dev

Tip

Since Gii is a development tool and has the ability to write new code to our application, we should use the --dev flag so that Composer...

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