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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to use Yii to build a modern web project based on frontend and backend applications. We have found out differences between basic and advanced templates, installing our first advanced project based on advanced templates.

Then we have used the init command to customize development or production environment in which to make the application run. Then we have written an example to display in the frontend rooms list, similar to what we have done in the previous basic template.

Finally, we customized URLs to make them pretty also in the advanced template, to refer to frontend and backend without URL application prefix. We also learned how to use advanced templates in shared hosting that does not have access to the console.

In the next chapter, we will explain how to write a multilingual app, adapt, and render the app in different languages without changes to the source code.