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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

Creating Controller and Action


In order to handle a request, the first thing to do is to create a new controller.

The things you must remember while creating a file controller are as follows:

  • The namespace at the top (in basic application usually app\controllers)

  • The use path for used class

  • The controller class must extend the yii\web\Controller class

  • The actions are handled from controller functions whose name starts with action and the first letter of each word is in uppercase

Let's point to basic/controllers and create a file named NewsController.php.

Then, create a class with the same name as the file and extend it from controller; finally, create an action named index to manage request for news/index:

<?php

// 1. specify namespace at the top (in basic application usually app\controllers);
namespace app\controllers;

// 2. specify 'use' path for used class;
use Yii;
use yii\web\Controller;

// 3. controller class must extend yii\web\Controller class;
// This line is equivalent to
// class...