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You're reading from Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 For PHP developers who know object-oriented programming, this book is the fast track to learning the Yii framework. It takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete real-world application ‚Äì teaching by practice rather than theory.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781847199584

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Yii

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

1. Meet Yii FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started

3. The TrackStar Application

4. Iteration 1: Creating the Initial TrackStar Application

5. Iteration 2: Project CRUD

6. Iteration 3: Adding Tasks

7. Iteration 4: User Management and Authentication

8. Iteration 5: User Access Control

9. Iteration 6: Adding User Comments

10. Iteration 7: Adding an RSS Web Feed

11. Iteration 8: Making it Pretty - Design, Layout, Themes, and Internationalization(i18n)

12. Iteration 9: Modules - Adding Administration

13. Iteration 10: Production Readiness

Index

Deconstructing the main.php layout file

So far, all of our application pages have been using the main.php layout file to provide the primary layout markup. Before we go making changes to our page layout and design, it would serve us well to take a closer look at this main layout file. The following is a listing of the entire contents of that file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <meta name="language" content="en" />

  <!-- blueprint CSS framework -->
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/screen.css" media="screen, projection" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/print.css...