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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

Error handling


By extending yii\rest\Controller (or yii\rest\ActiveController), we can easily implement error handling in our application by defining a proper error handler within our configuration, as illustrated in previous chapters:

<?php return [
    // [...],
    'components' => [
        // [...],
        'errorHandler' => [
            'errorAction' => 'user/error',
        ],
        // [...]
    ],
];

Unlike view-based responses, we do not need to include a definition within the actions() method of our controller for the error handler that we want to use. Instead, we can simply return the error as it occurs, or we can override the error to display a more generic response:

<?php

namespace app\controllers;
use yii\rest\ActiveController;

class UserController extends ActiveController
{
    public function actionError()
    {
        $exception = Yii::$app->errorHandler->exception;

        if ($exception !== null)
            return ['exception' => $exception...