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Yii2 By Example

By : Fabrizio Caldarelli
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Yii2 By Example

By: Fabrizio Caldarelli

Overview of this book

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. It provides fast, secure, and professional features to create robust projects, however, this rapid development requires the ability to organize common tasks together to build a complete application. It's all too easy to get confused; this is where this book comes in. This book contains a series of practical project examples for developers starting from scratch. Each section contains the most relevant theories for every topic as you walk through developing each project, focusing on key aspects that commonly confuse users. The book starts with all the framework’s basic concepts, such as controllers and views, to introduce you to Yii and creating your first application, a simple news reader. You will be learn to configure URL rules to make a pretty URL, essential for search engine optimization. Next, you will walk through Model and ActiveRecord, key concepts in database interaction. The second application you will develop is a reservation system that allows you to manage rooms, customers, and reservations. For this, you will use database connection through SQL and ActiveRecord. More complex than the first one, this application will introduce you to the advanced template of Yii 2, splitting the app into two parts: a frontend for all visitors and a backend for the admin. Finally, you will move on to the last two applications: one that allows connections from remote clients, through RESTful components of Yii 2, and another that creates and organizes automatic tasks using the console application structure of Yii 2.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Yii2 By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

File-based translations


This is the most simple way to translate text messages from one language to another. Basically, there are one or more files for each language containing keywords with text representations; we will put these keywords in the source code where the framework will replace them with text.

The pairs of keyword-text translations are grouped by categories representing the filenames where they are stored. These pairs are array keys-values, where key indicates keywords, and value indicates text translations.

By default, the path folder containing translations for a specific language is in @app/messages/<language>/<category>.php. Therefore, if we are writing translations for the app category and the en-US language, for example, the complete path for the translation file will be in @app/messages/en-US/app.php.

Going to the source code, translations are activated using the Yii::t() static method that accepts four parameters, but only the first two are required; the first...