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Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5

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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199584
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Altering the scaffolding to meet requirements


As we have seen many times before, we often have to make adjustments to the autogenerated scaffolding code in order to meet the specific requirements of the application. For one, our autogenerated form for creating a new comment has an input field for every single column defined in the tbl_comment database table. We don't actually want all of these fields to be part of the form. In fact, we want to greatly simplify this form to have only a single input field for the comment content. What's more, we don't want the user to access the form via the above URL, but rather only by visiting an issue details page. The user will add comments on the same page where they are viewing the details of the issue. We want to build towards something similar to what is depicted in the following screenshot:

In order to achieve this, we are going to alter our Issue controller class to handle the post of the comment form as well as alter the issue details view to display...

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