Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot
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- A series of projects to help you learn Yii and Rapid Application Development
- Learn how to build and incorporate key web technologies
- Use as a cookbook to look up key concepts, or work on the projects from start to finish for a complete web application
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 340 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : December 2012
ISBN : 1849517509
ISBN 13 : 9781849517508
Author(s) : Lauren J. O'Meara, James R. Hamilton III
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Open Source, PHP, Web Development
Table of Contents
PrefaceProject One: Develop a Comic Book Database
Project Two: Turn That DB into a Personal Mobile App
Project Three: Access All Areas – Users and Logins
Project Four: Level Up! Permission Levels
Project Five: Service Please – Integrating Service Data
Project Six: It's All a Game
Project Seven: Let It Work While You Sleep – Reports and Job Queues
Project Eight: Extend Yourself – Make a Module for Reuse
Index
- Project One: Develop a Comic Book Database
- Mission Briefing
- Setting up the LAMP Stack in One Step with XAMPP
- Installing NetBeans IDE
- Adding Xdebug to the Tool Set
- Unpacking the Yii Framework
- Initializing the Application Database
- Generating an Application Scaffold
- Beginning to Customize the App
- Getting Familiar with NetBeans and PHPUnit Testing Tools
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Two: Turn That DB into a Personal Mobile App
- Mission Briefing
- Setting Up Your Mobile Device
- Detecting Mobile Browser
- Creating a Mobile View
- Finishing Touches for the Mobile View
- Detecting Mobile Browser – The Real Deal
- Adding Issue Number to the Book Object
- Relationship Therapy
- Creating a Mobile View Widget
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Three: Access All Areas – Users and Logins
- Mission Briefing
- Adding a User Object with CRUD
- Making a User Management Interface
- Storing Passwords
- Activating Database User Login
- Enforcing Secure Passwords
- Adding User Functions – Wishlist
- Configuring User Access
- User Specific Menus
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Four: Level Up! Permission Levels
- Mission Briefing
- Adding Admin Function – Library Management
- Adding User Functions – Library
- Defining Roles and Access
- Adding the RBAC Extension
- Adding Roles to User Management
- Fine-tuning Permissions
- Making History
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Five: Service Please – Integrating Service Data
- Mission Briefing
- Google Me – Getting Started
- Google Me – Putting the Rubber to the Road
- Google Me – The Yii Way
- Integrating with Comic Vine – The Search, Part 1
- Integrating with Comic Vine – The Search, Part 2
- Integrating with Comic Vine – The Details
- Putting It All Together
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Six: It's All a Game
- Mission Briefing
- Updating the Database and Running Gii for Hangman
- Creating a JSON Endpoint for Hangman
- Developing the Controller – Creating the DB Entry
- Developing the Controller – Making the Rules
- Developing the View
- Improving the View
- Authorized Entry Only
- Reusing Code – Making a New Game
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Seven: Let It Work While You Sleep – Reports and Job Queues
- Mission Briefing
- Reorganizing Menu Items
- Scaffolding the Job Objects
- Adding Job Registration
- Adding Job Scheduling
- Adding Job Processing
- Creating and Registering a Job
- Creating a Graphical Report
- Displaying Graphical Report Output
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
- Project Eight: Extend Yourself – Make a Module for Reuse
- Mission Briefing
- Selecting Code for Reuse
- Preparing Your Module Framework
- Moving Your Module Files
- Writing a Migration Script
- Re-incorporating Your Module
- Testing Your Module
- Submitting Your Module
- Mission Accomplished
- You Ready to go Gung HO? A Hotshot Challenge
Lauren J. O'Meara
James R. Hamilton III
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Errata
- 2 submitted: last submission 04 Mar 2013Errata type: Code | Page number: 64
In step 5, the method isNewRecord() should be isNewRecord, that is without the parenthesis.
5. Make an addAuthor() function in the book model.
public function addAuthor($author) {
if ($author->isNewRecord()) {
Should be: 5. Make an addAuthor() function in the book model.
public function addAuthor($author) {
if ($author->isNewRecord) {
Errata type: Others | Page number: 13
In newer versions of NetBeans IDE, a new configuration option has been added for PHP unit testing. This is due to changes in phpunit. Step 12 shall read:
12. Configure NetBeans to use PHPUnit. Open Tools | Options | PHP | Unit Testing and set the correct path for PHPUnit script: /opt/lampp/bin/phpunit , and Skeleton Generator script: /opt/lampp/bin/phpunit-skelgen.
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- Catapult your application into existence with Yii's scaffolding capabilities
- Mobilize your web application with Yii and jQuery Mobile
- Lock down areas of your application with access control
- Manage users and permission levels
- Incorporate Software as a Service into your application
- Gamify your data
- Mine your information with data query jobs and reporting
- Reuse your work as Yii modules
Yii is a high performance PHP framework for rapid web application development. It is well designed, well supported, easy to learn, and easy to maintain. If you are beginning to learn web development or are a seasoned programmer with demanding clients, learning Yii will benefit your projects and career.
Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot will guide you through a series of projects covering a variety of web development hot topics to build a complete application. You will explore key features of a web application as implemented in Yii and experience the power of rapid application development.
Supercharge your projects and your programming ability by becoming a Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot. Start with the topics that grab your attention or work through each project in sequence. At the end of each project, you will have a working application, a better understanding of Yii, and a new web development skill under your belt.
Integrate with Google API. Gamify your data. Share your functionality as a service. Mobilize your app. Mine and report on your information. Have fun and produce results!
Practical, real world example projects. Start with the topics that grab your attention or work through each project in sequence.
This book is for intermediate to advanced level PHP programmers who want to master Yii.
