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The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0

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Introduction

• Overview - What is Yii and what is it good for?

Getting started

• Upgrading from 1.1 to 2.0

• Installation - How to download Yii and configure the Webserver?

• Configuration - Configuration of a Yii application

• Basic Application Template - A template to start a basic frontend application.

• Advanced Application Template - The basis for more advanced applications.

• Creating your own Application structure - Learn how to start from scratch.

Base concepts

• Basic concepts of Yii - The Object and Component class, Path aliases and autoloading
• MVC - Implementation of MVC in Yii and a typical MVC application flow
  • Model - The Yii Model provides Attributes, Scenarios and data Validation
  • View - Rendering Views applying layouts, using Widgets and asset management
  • Controller - controller actions, routing and action filters
• Event Handling - The Yii event handling mechanism
• Behaviors

Database

• Basics - Connecting to a database, basic queries, transactions and schema manipulation
• Query Builder - Querying the database using a simple abstraction layer
• ActiveRecord - The active record ORM, retrieving and manipulating records and defining relations
• Database Migration - Versioning your database with database migration

Developers Toolbox

• Helper Classes
• Automatic Code Generation
• Debug toolbar and debugger
• Error Handling
• Logging

Extensions and 3rd party libraries

• Composer - How to manage applications dependencies via composer
• Extending Yii
• Template engines - Using template engines such as Smarty or Twig
• Using Yii together with 3rd-Party Systems - Using Yii in 3rd-Party Systems and using Yii 1 and 2 together

Security and access control

• Authentication - Identifying Users
• Authorization - Access control and RBAC
• Security - Hashing and verifying passwords, encryption
• Views security - how to prevent XSS

Data providers, lists and grids

• Overview
• Data providers
• Grids
• Lists

Advanced Topics

• Asset Management
• Working with forms
• Bootstrap widgets - Using twitter bootstrap
• Theming
• Caching - Caching data, page fragments and http requests
• Internationalization - Message translation and formatting
• URL Management - routing, customized urls and SEO
• Console Application
• Performance Tuning
• Testing

References

• Model validation reference
• Official Composer documentation