Yii2 By Example电子书

Yii2 By Example

Table of Contents

Yii2 By Example

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. Starting with Yii2

Requirements and tools

Installing Yii2 with Composer

Application structure

Application properties

Common application components

Handling application events

The MVC pattern in Yii2

Naming convention

Configuring the debug toolbar

Using the logger

Example – Hello world from scratch with the Yii basic template and bootstrap template

Summary

2. Creating a Simple News Reader

Creating Controller and Action

Creating a view to display a news list

How the controller sends data to view

Example – create a controller to display the static news items list and details using the bootstrap template

Splitting the common view content into reusable views

Example – render partial in view

Creating static pages

Example – add a contact page

Sharing data between views and layout

Example – change the layout background based on a URL parameter

Layout with dynamic block

Example – add a dynamic box to display advertising info

Using multiple layouts

Example – using different layouts to create responsive and nonresponsive content layout for the same view

Summary

3. Making Pretty URLs

Using pretty URLs

Custom URL rules

Example – list news items by year or category

Default parameters in rules

Example – the index page to display the links list

The complete URL rule parameters

The URL pattern to support the multilanguage view

Creating the rule class

Summary

4. Creating a Room through Forms

Creating a Model

Example – a Model to store room data

Using ActiveForm

Example – creating a new room from the HTML form

Format date, time, and numbers

Uploading files

Example – uploading an image of a room

Summary

5. Developing a Reservation System

Configuring a DB connection

Example – creating rooms, customers, and reservations tables

Example – test connection and executing the SQL query

Using Gii to create room, customer, and reservation models

Using ActiveRecord to manipulate data

Example – query rooms list with ActiveRecord

Working with relationships

Example – using a relationship to connect rooms, reservations, and customers

How to save a model from a form

Example – creating and updating a room from a form

Setting up the GMT time zone

Using multiple database connections

Example – configuring a second DB connection to export data to a local SQLite DB

Summary

6. Using a Grid for Data and Relations

Introduction

DataProvider for grids

Using a grid

Custom columns in a grid

Example – displaying a reservations list by clicking on a customer grid row

Filters in GridView

Displaying and filtering ActiveRecord relational data in a grid's column

A summarized footer row in a grid

Example – extending GridView to customize the footer row in a grid

Multiple grids on one page

Example: managing the reservations and rooms grids in the same view

Summary

7. Working on the User Interface

Using Gii to generate CRUD

Example – using CRUD to manage rooms, reservations, and customers using Gii

Customize JavaScript and CSS

Example – using JavaScript and CSS to display advertising columns that disappear if not enough space is available

Using AJAX

Example – reservation details loaded from the customers' drop-down lists

Using the Bootstrap widget

Example: using datepicker

Multiple models in the same view

Example – saving multiple customers at the same time

Saving linked models in the same view

Example – creating a customer and reservation in the same view

Summary

8. Log in to the App

Creating a user login

Example – a login form to access

Configuring user authorization

Example – creating an ACF to authorize the users

RBAC

Example – configuring RBAC to set permissions for users

Mixing ACF and RBAC

Example – managing users' roles to access rooms, reservations, and customers

Summary

9. Frontend to Display Rooms to Everyone

Using an advanced template to split frontend and backend

Configuring an application using init

Example – creating frontend for public access

Sharing ActiveRecord models among applications

Example – displaying available rooms in the frontend site

Customizing a URL in the advanced template

Example – using the advanced template in the same domain

How to use the advanced template in the shared hosting

Summary

10. Localize the App

Setting the default language

File-based translations

Example – using file-based translation for the entire website

Placeholders formatting

DB-based translations

Example – translating room descriptions using DB

Summary

11. Creating an API for Use in a Mobile App

Configuring a REST app in the advanced template

Creating a controller

Example – creating a controller to manage rooms

Authentication

Example – using authentication to get a customers list

New controller action

Example – getting a rooms list for a reservation

Customizing authentication and response

Example – status response node in data received

Other forms of export – RSS

Example – creating an RSS with a list of available rooms

Summary

12. Create a Console Application to Automate the Periodic Task

Interacting with console applications

Creating a console controller

Example – setting an alarm flag for expired reservation

Formatting the output from the console

Implementing and executing cron jobs

Example – sending an e-mail with new reservations of the day

Summary

13. Final Refactoring

Creating widgets

Example – creating a widget with a carousel

Creating components

Example – creating a component that creates a backup of the MySQL database and sends an e-mail to the administrator

Creating modules

Generating an API documentation

Example – using an API documentation to generate a doc of app and services

Summary

Index