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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

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the basics of how requests and responses are handled in Yii2. We first explored how Yii2 handles the routing of URL routes, and we learned how to manipulate and create our own custom URL rules. We then explored the yii\web\Request and yii\web\Response objects and gained a better understanding of how we can use these objects to manipulate the requests and responses coming to and from our application. Finally, we learned how events work in Yii2, and we also learned how to create our own events.

In the next chapter, we'll take the knowledge we've gained in this chapter to the next level by exploring how to implement RESTful APIs.