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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

Requests


After handling where we want our request to go, we will often need to write specific logic to handle the details of our HTTP request. To help facilitate this, Yii2 represents the HTTP request within the yii\web\Request object, which can provide a variety of information about the HTTP request, such as the request body, GET and POST parameters, and headers. Each request in Yii2 can be accessed easily through the request application component, which is represented by Yii::$app->request in our code.

Retrieving request parameters and data

The most common task we'll perform when working with the request object is retrieving GET and POST parameters, which are implemented by yii\web\Request::get() and yii\web\Request::post() respectively. These methods enable us to consistently and safely access the $_GET and $_POST parameters of our application:

$request = \Yii::$app->request;

// Retrieve all of the $_GET parameters
// similar to $get = $_GET
$get = $request->get();
// Retrieve...