Book Description
This book is the perfect way to add the capabilities of Yii to your PHP5 development skills. Dealing with practical solutions through real-life recipes and screenshots, it enables you to write applications more efficiently.
- Learn how to use Yii even more efficiently
- Full of practically useful solutions and concepts you can use in your application
- Both important Yii concept descriptions and practical recipes are inside
In Detail
The Yii framework is a rapidly growing PHP5 MVC framework often referred to as Rails for PHP. It has already become a solid base for many exciting web applications such as Stay.com and can be a good base for your developments, too. This book will help you to learn Yii quickly and in more depth for use in for your developments.
"Yii Application Development Cookbook" will show you how to use Yii efficiently. You will learn about taking shortcuts using core features, creating your own reusable code base, using test driven development, and many more topics that will give you a lot of experience in a moderate amount of time.
The second edition fixes all errata found in the first edition and also features new recipes on the client side, HTTP caching, and using Composer with Yii.
The chapters of the book are generally independent and since this book’s goal is to enhance a practical approach to Yii development, you can start reading from the chapter you need most, be it Ajax and jQuery, Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks, or Extending Yii.
"Yii Application Development Cookbook" will help you to learn more about the Yii framework and application development practices in general, showing shortcuts and dangerous things you shouldn’t do.
With all the recipes grouped in 13 chapters, you will write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts and using Yii core functionality in a good way. The most interesting topics are; Yii application deployment, a guide to writing your own extensions, advanced error handling, debugging and logging, application security, performance tuning, and much more.
"Yii Application Development Cookbook" will help you to learn more about the Yii framework and application development practices in general. You will write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts and using Yii core functionality in a good way.
Table of Contents
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Under the Hood
- 2. Router, Controller, and Views
- Introduction
- Configuring URL rules
- Generating URLs by path
- Using regular expressions in URL rules
- Creating URL rules for static pages
- Providing your own URL rules at runtime
- Using a base controller
- Using external actions
- Displaying static pages with CViewAction
- Using flash messages
- Using the controller context in a view
- Reusing views with partials
- Using clips
- Using decorators
- Defining multiple layouts
- Paginating and sorting data
- 3. AJAX and jQuery
- 4. Working with Forms
- 5. Testing Your Application
- 6. Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
- Introduction
- Getting data from a database
- Defining and using multiple DB connections
- Using scopes to get models for different languages
- Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
- Applying markdown and HTML
- Highlighting code with Yii
- Automating timestamps
- Setting up an author automatically
- Implementing single table inheritance
- Using CDbCriteria
- 7. Using Zii Components
- 8. Extending Yii
- 9. Error Handling, Debugging, and Logging
- 10. Security
- 11. Performance Tuning
- 12. Using External Code
- 13. Deployment
- Index