Chapter 3. The TrackStar Application

We could continue to keep adding to our simple demo application to provide examples of Yii's features, but that won't really help us to understand the framework in the context of a real-world application. In order to do that, we need to build something that will more closely resemble the types of applications web developers actually have to build. That is exactly what we are going to be doing throughout the rest of this book.

In this chapter, we introduce the project task tracking application called TrackStar. There are many other project management and issue tracking applications out there in the world, and the basic functionality of ours will not be any different from many of these. So why build it, you ask? It turns out that this type of user-based application has many features that are common to a great many web applications out there. This will allow us to achieve two primary goals:

• Showcase Yii's incredible utility and feature set as we build useful...