Yii2 Application Development Cookbook, Third Edition

About This Book

• Learn how to use Yii2 efficiently through clear examples and core features, and see how to use tests, create reusable code snippets, core widgets, deployment, and more
• This book provides you with a wide space for practice approaches and helps you to learn about the new Yii2 framework.
• Understand the difference between the Yii 1.x.x versions using useful examples from real web applications

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers with good PHP5 knowledge and MVC-frameworks who have tried to develop applications using the Yii 1.x.x version. This book will very useful for all those who would like to try Yii2, or those who are afraid to move from Yii 1.x.x. to Yii2. If you have still not tried Yii2, this book is definitely for you!

What You Will Learn

• Write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts, Yii's core functionality, and the best practices in Web 2.0
• Get data from a database, and deal with Active Record, migrations, widgets, and core features
• Easily update your skills from the previous version of the framework
• Explore how to use Yii with different JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as WebSockets, Angular, Ember, Backbone, and React
• Learn how to keep your application secure according to the general web application security principle “filter input, escape output”
• Learn how to write RESTful web services using Yii2 and built-in features
• Learn how to install and use official extensions in your project

In Detail

This book is a collection of Yii2 recipes. Each recipe is represented as a full and independent item, which showcases solutions from real web applications, so you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 quickly and without tears. All the recipes are explained with step-by-step code examples and clear screenshots.

Yii2 is like a suit that looks great off the rack, but is also very easy to tailor to fit your needs. Virtually every component of the framework is extensible. This book will show how to use official extensions, extend any component, and write a new one.

This book will help you create modern web applications quickly, and make sure they perform well using examples and business logic from real life. You will deal with the Yii command line, migrations, and assets. You will learn about role-based access, security, and deployment. We'll show you how to easily get started, configure your environment, and be ready to write web applications efficiently and quickly.

Dmitry Eliseev is a web developer since 2008 who specializes on server-side programming on PHP and PHP frameworks.

Since 2012 he is author of personnel blog http://elisdn.ru about web development in general and about Yii Framework particularly. His blog became well known resource in russian Yii community.

He is an active member of russian-language forum http://yiiframework.ru.

Dmitry interested in development best practices, software architecture, object-oriented and other approaches.

He is an author and a presenter of practical courses about principles and best practices of object oriented programming and usage of version control systems. And also he is an author of webinars about Yii2 Framework and about common development subjects.

He practices personal teaching and counseling by development on frameworks and using of principles of software design and improvements of common code quality.

It is the first his paper book.

Andrey Bogdanov is seasoned web-developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than 6 years of industrial development. Since 2010 have been interested in Yii and MVC frameworks. Take a part in projects which had been written Yii such work aggregator for UK company, high-load project, real estating projects and development of private projects for government.

He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP, MySQL which includes Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP etc. Also having good hands in integrating third party APIs like Payment gateways (Paypal, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin), he is very good in slicing and frontend. So he can provide full information about Yii framework.

He is also well-versed in PHP/MYSQL, Yii 1.x.x, Yii 2.x.x, Ajax, Jquery, MVC frameworks, Python, LAMP, HTML/CSS, mercurial, git, angular.js, adaptive markup

You can also visit his blog http://jehkinen.com

In free time he likes to visit and talk with new people and discus web-developments problems. In this moment I working with professionals http://2amigos.us