Yii Application Development Cookbook

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The Yii framework is a rapidly growing PHP5 MVC framework often referred to as Rails for PHP. It has already become a solid base for many exciting web applications such as Stay.com and can be a good base for your developments, too. This book will help you to learn Yii quickly and in more depth for use in for your developments.Yii Application Development Cookbook will show you how to use Yii efficiently. You will learn about taking shortcuts using core features, creating your own reusable code base, using test driven development, and many more topics that will give you a lot of experience in a moderate amount of time.The second edition fixes all errata found in the first edition and also features new recipes on the client side, HTTP caching, and using Composer with Yii.The chapters of the book are generally independent and since this book's goal is to enhance a practical approach to Yii development, you can start reading from the chapter you need most, be it Ajax and jQuery, Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks, or Extending Yii.Yii Application Development Cookbook will help you to learn more about the Yii framework and application development practices in general, showing shortcuts and dangerous things you shouldn't do.With all the recipes grouped in 13 chapters, you will write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts and using Yii core functionality in a good way. The most interesting topics are; Yii application deployment, a guide to writing your own extensions, advanced error handling, debugging and logging, application security, performance tuning, and (...) więcej much more.Yii Application Development Cookbook will help you to learn more about the Yii framework and application development practices in general. You will write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts and using Yii core functionality in a good way. Spis treści:
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...
Theres 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
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