Yii2 By Example [Paperback]

Develop complete web applications from scratch through practical examples and tips for beginners and more advanced users

About This Book

• Improve your programming experience and become a full stack developer
• Master real-life web applications, and create and manage four different projects
• Step-by-step guidance to develop real-world web applications smoothly

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who wants to discover and explore Yii Framework. Basic programming experience with PHP and object oriented programming is assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Understand basic concepts, along with the installation and customization of Yii
• Discover models, controllers, and views-concepts applied in a web context-and how they are employed in Yii
• Use ActiveRecord to manipulate a database
• Add access control to your web application through authentication and authorization
• Install and customize an advanced template for multiple applications in the same project
• Create a RESTful Web Service to allow remote access to data
• Develop a console application to launch a command in the console as an automated task (cron job)
• Make code reusable through widgets and components and localize text messages to make a multilanguage web app

In Detail

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 l³-