Yii Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Under the Hood
• Introduction
• Using getters and setters
• Using Yii events
• Using import and autoloading
• Using exceptions
• Configuring components
• Configuring widget defaults
• Using Yii core collections
• Working with requests

• Chapter 2: Router, Controller, and Views
• Introduction
• Configuring URL rules
• Generating URLs by path
• Using regular expressions in URL rules
• Creating URL rules for static pages
• Providing your own URL rules at runtime
• Using a base controller
• Using external actions
• Displaying static pages with CViewAction
• Using flash messages
• Using the controller context in a view
• Reusing views with partials
• Using clips
• Using decorators
• Defining multiple layouts
• Paginating and sorting data

• Chapter 3: AJAX and jQuery
• Introduction
• Loading a block through AJAX
• Managing assets
• Including resources in the page
• Working with JSON
• Passing configuration from PHP to JavaScript
• Handling variable number of inputs
• Rendering content at the client side

• Chapter 4: Working with Forms
• Introduction
• Writing your own validators
• Uploading files
• Adding CAPTCHA
• Customizing CAPTCHA
• Creating a custom input widget with CInputWidget

• Chapter 5: Testing Your Application
• Introduction
• Setting up the testing environment
• Writing and running unit tests
• Using fixtures
• Testing the application with functional tests
• Generating code coverage reports

• Chapter 6: Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
• Introduction
• Getting data from a database
• Defining and using multiple DB connections
• Using scopes to get models for different languages
• Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
• Applying markdown and HTML
• Highlighting code with Yii
• Automating timestamps
• Setting up an author automatically
• Implementing single table inheritance
• Using CDbCriteria

• Chapter 7: Using Zii Components
• Introduction
• Using data providers
• Using grids
• Using lists
• Creating custom grid columns

• Chapter 8: Extending Yii
• Introduction
• Creating model behaviors
• Creating components
• Creating reusable controller actions
• Creating reusable controllers
• Creating a widget
• Creating CLI commands
• Creating filters
• Creating modules
• Creating a custom view renderer
• Making extensions distribution-ready

• Chapter 9: Error Handling, Debugging, and Logging
• Introduction
• Using different log routes
• Analyzing the Yii error stack trace
• Logging and using the context information
• Implementing your own smart 404 handler

• Chapter 10: Security
• Introduction
• Using controller filters
• Using CHtml and CHtmlPurifier to prevent XSS
• Preventing SQL injections
• Preventing CSRF
• Using RBAC

• Chapter 11: Performance Tuning
• Introduction
• Following best practices
• Speeding up session handling
• Using cache dependencies and chains
• Profiling an application with Yii
• Leveraging HTTP caching

• Chapter 12: Using External Code
• Introduction
• Using Zend Framework from Yii
• Customizing the Yii autoloader
• Using Kohana inside Yii
• Using PEAR inside Yii
• Using Composer with Yii

• Chapter 13: Deployment
• Introduction
• Changing the Yii directory layout
• Moving an application out of webroot
• Sharing the framework directory
• Moving configuration parts into separate files
• Using multiple configurations to simplify the deployment
• Implementing and executing cron jobs
• Maintenance mode

• Index