Yii Project Blueprints

From conception to production, learn how to develop real-world applications with the Yii framework

About This Book

• Develop real-world web applications through easy-to-follow, step-by-step processes
• Create eight projects from beginning to end to help you explore the full power of Yii
• Build a fast, user-based, database-driven content management system with a dashboard and RESTful API

Who This Book Is For

This book is for intermediate-to-advanced level Yii developers who want to master the Yii framework and develop real-world applications. You should have experience of working with Yii, PHP 5, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

In Detail

The Yii framework is a high-performance, fast, open source, and a rapid development PHP framework that can be used to develop modern web applications. It provides the toolkit for developing both personal projects and enterprise applications. Yii’s component-based architecture lets developers build modules so that they aren’t customizing the underlying code base and so that anything they build is easy to use in different projects.

This book is a step-by-step guide to developing reusable real-world applications using the Yii framework. The book will guide you through several projects from the project conception through to planning your project and implementation. You will explore the key features of the framework and learn how to use it efficiently and effectively to build solid core applications that you’ll be able to reuse in real-world projects. At the end of each project, you’ll have a better understanding of Yii and a working application that you can use in the future.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Task Management Application
Chapter 2: Discovering What’s Nearby
Chapter 3: Scheduled Reminders
Chapter 4: Developing an Issue-tracking Application
Chapter 5: Creating a Microblogging Platform
Chapter 6: Building a Content Management System
Chapter 7: Creating a Management Module for the CMS
Chapter 8: Building an API for the CMS