How to Program With Yii2

This tutorial will walk you through installing Yii 2.0, setting up your local development environment, building some sample applications, setting up your remote production environment for hosting and deploying your code from a GitHub repository.

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How to Program With Yii2: Getting Started
The recent release of Yii 2.0 makes it the perfect time to come up to speed with one of the most efficient, powerful and extensible PHP frameworks. This...
Jeff Reifman
30 Oct 2014
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How to Program With Yii2: Exploring MVC, Forms and Layouts
Now that you've built "Hello World," it's time to learn about Yii's implementation of Model View Controller architecture for use in everyday web development.
Jeff Reifman
3 Feb 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Working With the Database and Active Record
How to use Yii's automated scaffolding generator to build advanced web database applications quickly and easily.
Jeff Reifman
16 Mar 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Working With the Database and Active Record
How to use Yii's automated scaffolding generator to build advanced web database applications quickly and easily.
Jeff Reifman
16 Mar 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Integrating User Registration
Yii2 offers a couple of ways to integrate user registration. We'll show you how to use a third party extension, Yii2-User.
Jeff Reifman
23 Mar 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Localization With I18n
Make your web application accessible to users in any country with Yii2's I18n support for translation-ready resource files.
Jeff Reifman
30 Mar 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: User Access Controls
The Yii Framework makes it easy to implement authentication controls over the features in your web application. Learn how to restrict access by user for...
Jeff Reifman
16 Apr 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Rich Text Input With Redactor
The Yii community purchased a license to Imperavi's Redactor, a fast, clean and extendable rich text editor for the web. Learn how to integrate Redactor into...
Jeff Reifman
17 Jun 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Sluggable Behavior
Human readable URLs are user friendly and search-engine friendly. The Yii Framework provides built-in support for readable URLs, also known as slugs.
Jeff Reifman
13 May 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Working With Asset Bundles
Yii2 Asset Bundles make it easier to manage and optimize when and where we use JavaScript and CSS within our web applications. Learn to use Asset Bundles in...
Jeff Reifman
10 Jun 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Blameable Behaviors
Yii2's behaviors reduce the need to repeat common code. The Blameable Behavior automates the tracking of who created and updated model entries. We'll also...
Jeff Reifman
20 May 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Timestamp Behavior
Timestamp records in all your models with minimal effort using this essential Yii2 behavior.
Jeff Reifman
22 May 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Validations
The Yii Framework's built-in, extensible validators provide powerful data conformance controls which speed web development. Learn how to use them and extend...
Jeff Reifman
27 May 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Specialized Validations
In part two of our miniseries on Yii2 validations, we explore highly useful validations for common web development requirements such as URL, email, file and...
Jeff Reifman
3 Jun 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: AuthClient Integration With Twitter & Google
Yii2's built in AuthClient support makes it easy to integrate identity authentication with popular sites, services and social networks such as Facebook,...
Jeff Reifman
24 Jun 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Using the Advanced Application Template
Let's explore Yii's advanced template, which provides integrated user sign-up and registration as well as a back-end website for administration features.
Jeff Reifman
23 Nov 2015
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How to Program With Yii2: Google Authentication
In this episode, we'll show you how to have your Yii2 app users register and sign in with their Google accounts.
Jeff Reifman
27 Nov 2015
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Programming With Yii2: Using Amazon S3
Learn how to use a Yii extension to upload and retrieve objects and files from Amazon's cloud-based storage service.
Jeff Reifman
6 Dec 2016
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Programming With Yii2: Routing and URL Creation
With any MVC framework, routing is an important element of application design, security, and even performance. Learn how to manage routes and create URLs in...
Jeff Reifman
13 Dec 2016
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Programming With Yii2: Helpers
In Yii, Helpers are small, extensible modules providing useful features for common tasks such as string and image management or HTML and URL generation.
Jeff Reifman
27 Dec 2016
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Programming With Yii2: Using Ajax
Web pages rely on Ajax to offer interactive, app-like behavior. Learn how to make your web pages respond quickly with minimal page refresh with Yii and...
Jeff Reifman
10 Nov 2016
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Programming With Yii2: Security
The Yii Framework integrates design principles to make basic web application security easier for developers to provide. Let's review what you should know...
Jeff Reifman
8 Nov 2016
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Programming With Yii2: Automated Testing With Codeception
The Yii Framework integrates Codeception, which aims to make writing tests fun. Learn how to integrate testing into your everyday development efforts.
Jeff Reifman
17 Nov 2016
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How to Program With Yii2: ActiveRecord
Improve the structure efficiency and security of your database programming. Learn to apply active record patterns with your database programming in Yii2.
Jeff Reifman
6 Mar 2017
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How to Program With Yii2: Running Cron Services
Yii2 provides a built-in capacity for running Linux-based cron scripts. Learn how to ditch your wget scripts for a cleaner, more secure console-based approach.
Jeff Reifman
27 Mar 2017
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Programming With Yii2: Building a RESTful API
The Yii Framework provides straightforward support for implementing APIs, essential to making your application data available to other apps and services.
Jeff Reifman
6 Apr 2017
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Programming With Yii2: Building Community With Voting, Comments, and Sharing
Learn how to build your own social platform with Yii integrating plugins to support Disqus comments, up and down voting, and Twitter and Facebook sharing.
Jeff Reifman
15 May 2017
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Programming With Yii: Generating Documentation
Learn to use Yii2's automated documentation generator, apidoc, as I build the API documentation for my startup Meeting Planner application.
Jeff Reifman
26 May 2017
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