Book Image

Yii2 By Example

By : Fabrizio Caldarelli
Book Image

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

Using an advanced template to split frontend and backend


Until now, we have seen simple applications with only one single entry point to access. However, a single entry point isn't enough for more general applications. In advanced web applications, in fact, we have not just a single entry point but often three: frontend, backend, and a common area used as shared zone for every entry point.

The frontend entry point is a public access that is available to all users without restrictions.

On the other hand, the backend entry point is a restricted access available only for authenticated users that have administration roles for managing content in the web application.

Finally, the common entry point is used to share data between entry points.

Think about a reservation system, where frontend is the website displaying room availability and prices, while backend is the administration area, where operators can manage rooms.

In the same way, another example of frontend and backend could be a newspaper website...