Yii Application Development Cookbook (2nd edition)电子书

Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition

Table of Contents

Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Under the Hood

Introduction

Using getters and setters

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using Yii events

How to do it...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Using import and autoloading

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using exceptions

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Configuring components

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more...

Configuring widget defaults

How to do it…

See also

Using Yii core collections

How to do it…

Working with requests

How to do it…

There's more...

2. Router, Controller, and Views

Introduction

Configuring URL rules

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Generating URLs by path

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using regular expressions in URL rules

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating URL rules for static pages

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Providing your own URL rules at runtime

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using a base controller

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using external actions

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Displaying static pages with CViewAction

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Using flash messages

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Using the controller context in a view

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Reusing views with partials

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

See also

Using clips

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using decorators

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

See also

Defining multiple layouts

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Paginating and sorting data

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

3. AJAX and jQuery

Introduction

Loading a block through AJAX

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Prevent including a bundled jQuery

Further reading

See also

Managing assets

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

What is inside the assets directory

Publishing an entire directory

Further reading

See also

Including resources in the page

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using custom script packages

Registering linked resources

Registering meta tags

Further reading

See also

Working with JSON

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Passing configuration from PHP to JavaScript

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling variable number of inputs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

See also

Rendering content at the client side

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

See also

4. Working with Forms

Introduction

Writing your own validators

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

Uploading files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

File validation

Further reading

See also

Adding CAPTCHA

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading:

See also

Customizing CAPTCHA

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a custom input widget with CInputWidget

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

5. Testing Your Application

Introduction

Setting up the testing environment

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

See also

Writing and running unit tests

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using fixtures

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Testing the application with functional tests

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Generating code coverage reports

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

6. Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks

Introduction

Getting data from a database

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Defining and using multiple DB connections

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Cross-database relations

Further reading

See also

Using scopes to get models for different languages

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Processing model fields with AR event-like methods

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Applying markdown and HTML

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Markdown syntax

Yii markdown wrapper and usage

See also

Highlighting code with Yii

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Yii code highlighter

More code highlighters

See also

Automating timestamps

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Setting up an author automatically

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Implementing single table inheritance

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using CDbCriteria

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

7. Using Zii Components

Introduction

Using data providers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Using grids

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using data from related Active Record models

Further reading

See also

Using lists

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Adding sorting

Customizing templates

Customizing markup and data displayed

Further reading

See also

Creating custom grid columns

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

8. Extending Yii

Introduction

Creating model behaviors

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

CActiveRecordBehavior and CModelBehavior

More behavior types

Further reading

See also

Creating components

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Overriding existing application components

Further reading

See also

Creating reusable controller actions

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Creating reusable controllers

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a widget

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating CLI commands

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Creating filters

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating modules

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Creating a custom view renderer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Making extensions distribution-ready

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

9. Error Handling, Debugging, and Logging

Introduction

Using different log routes

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Yii::trace versus Yii::log

Yii::beginProfile and Yii::endProfile

Log messages immediately

Further reading

See also

Analyzing the Yii error stack trace

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Logging and using the context information

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Implementing your own smart 404 handler

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

10. Security

Introduction

Using controller filters

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using CHtml and CHtmlPurifier to prevent XSS

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

XSS types

Configuring the HTML Purifier

HTML Purifier performance

Further reading

See also

Preventing SQL injections

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Preventing CSRF

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Extra measures

Using GET and POST properly

Further reading

See also

Using RBAC

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Naming RBAC nodes

A way to keep the hierarchy simple and efficient

Avoiding RBAC

Further reading

See also

11. Performance Tuning

Introduction

Following best practices

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Server-side performance is just a part of the big picture

Things to be done without using Yii

Active Record versus query builder and SQL

Always check for slow queries first

Cache or save results of heavy processes

Handling too much processing

Further reading

See also

Speeding up session handling

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using cache dependencies and chains

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Profiling an application with Yii

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Leveraging HTTP caching

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Optimizing filters

Further reading

See also

12. Using External Code

Introduction

Using Zend Framework from Yii

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Customizing the Yii autoloader

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Using Kohana inside Yii

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Using PEAR inside Yii

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using Composer with Yii

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

13. Deployment

Introduction

Changing the Yii directory layout

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Moving an application out of webroot

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Sharing the framework directory

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Moving configuration parts into separate files

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Using multiple configurations to simplify the deployment

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Implementing and executing cron jobs

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Further reading

See also

Maintenance mode

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Index