Yii2 Application Development Solutions - Volume 2 [Video]

Andrew Bogdanov, Dmitry Eliseev
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Explore the advanced concepts of the Yii2 framework to create modern web applications quickly

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ISBN 139781787128750

Course Length3 hours 09 minutes

Video Description

Yii is an optimal, high-performance PHP framework for developing Web 2.0 applications. It provides fast, secure, and professional features to create robust projects; however, this rapid development requires the ability to organize common tasks collectively to build a complete application. Being extremely performance-optimized, Yii is the perfect choice for projects of any size. It comes packaged with tools to help test and debug your application and has clear and comprehensive documentation.

This video course is a collection of Yii2 videos. Each video is represented as a full and independent item, showcasing solutions from real web applications. So you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 rapidly and painlessly…

In this video, you will get started by configuring your Yii2 application. After that, we will focus on how to make our extension as efficient as possible. Then we will cover some best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads. Moving ahead, we will provide various tips, which are especially useful in application deployment and when developing an application in a team. Later, we will introduce the best technologies for testing and we will see how to write simple tests and avoid regression errors in our application.

Finally, we conclude this course by discussing review logging, analyzing the exception stack trace, and implementing our own error handler.

Style and Approach

The sections in this video are independent and offer a practical approach to Yii development. All videos are explained with step-by-step code examples and real-world business logic.

Configuring Your Yii2 Application

The Course Overview

ElasticSearch Engine Adapter

Gii Code Generator

PJax jQuery Plugin

Redis Database Driver

Extending Yii

Creating Helpers

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

Creating a Multilanguage Application

Making Extensions Distribution-Ready

Performance Tuning

Following Best Practices

Speeding Up Session Handling

Using Cache Dependencies and Chains

Profiling an Application with Yii

Leveraging HTTP Caching

Combining and Minimizing Assets

Running Yii2 on HHVM

Deployment

Changing the Yii Directory Layout

Moving an Application Webroot

Changing an Advanced Application Template

Moving Configuration Parts into Separate Files

Using Multiple Configurations to Simplify the Deployment

Implementing and Executing Cron Jobs

Maintenance Mode

Deployment Tools

Testing

Testing Application with Codeception

Unit Testing with PHPUnit

Unit Testing with Atoum

Unit Testing with Behat

Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling

Using Different Log Routes

Analyzing the Yii Error Stack Trace

Logging and Using the Context Information

Displaying Custom Errors

Custom Panel for Debug Extension

What You Will Learn

Implement your own Yii extension and make your extension reusable and useful for the Community
Configure Yii to gain extra performance
Learn best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads
Learn how to show everyone except the developer a maintenance message.
Add an advanced configuration system to the yii2-app-basic application template
Use the best technologies for testing, such as Codeception, PhpUnit, Atoum, and Behat.
Write simple tests and avoid regression errors in your application.
Review logging, analyze exception stack traces, and implement your own error handler.

Authors

Andrew Bogdanov

Andrew Bogdanov is a seasoned web developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than six years' experience in industrial development. Since 2010 he has been interested in the Yii and MVC frameworks. He has taken part in projects written in Yii such as a work aggregator for a UK company, high-load projects, real-estate projects, and the development of private projects for the government.

He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP and MySQL, including Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP, and so on. Also, having good hands in integrating third-party APIs such as Payment gateways (PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). He is very good in slicing and frontend, so he can provide full information about the Yii framework.
He is also well-versed in PHP/MYSQL, Yii 1.x.x, Yii 2.x.x, Ajax, Jquery, MVC frameworks, Python, LAMP, HTML/CSS, Mercurial, Git, AngularJS, and adaptive markup. You can visit his blog at http://jehkinen.com.

In his free time, he likes to visit and talk with new people and discuss web development problems. He is currently working with professionals: http://2amigos.us.

Dmitry Eliseev

Dmitry Eliseev has been a web developer since 2008 and specializes in server-side programming on the PHP and PHP frameworks. Since 2012 he has authored his personal blog, http://elisdn.ru, about web development in general and about the Yii Framework in particular. His blog has become a well-known resource in the Russian Yii community. He is an active member of a Russian-language forum: http://yiiframework.ru.

Dmitry is interested in developmental best practices, software architectures, object-oriented programming, and other approaches.

He is an author and a presenter of practical courses about the principles and best practices of object-oriented programming and the use of version control systems. And also he is an author of webinars, the Yii2 Framework, and common developmental subjects. He practices teaching and counseling by development on frameworks and using the principles of software design and improvements in common code quality. This is his first book.