Installing Yii
Prior to installing Yii, you must configure your application development environment as a web server capable of supporting PHP 5.1.0 or higher. Yii has been thoroughly tested with Apache HTTP server on Windows and Linux operating systems. It may also run on other web servers and platforms, provided PHP 5 is supported. There are myriad free resources available on the Internet to assist you in getting your environment configured with a PHP 5 compatible web server. We assume the reader has previously engaged in PHP development and has access to such an environment. We will leave the installation of a web server and PHP itself as an exercise to the reader.
The basic Yii installation is almost trivial. There are really only two necessary steps:
Download the Yii Framework from http://www.yiiframework.com/download/.
Unpack the downloaded file to a web-accessible folder.
Note
There are several versions of Yii from which to choose when downloading the framework. We will be using version...
