- Overview - What is Yii and what is it good for?
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Installation - How to download Yii and configure the Webserver?
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Configuration - Configuration of a Yii application
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Basic Application Template - A template to start a basic frontend application.
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Advanced Application Template - The basis for more advanced applications.
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Creating your own Application structure - Learn how to start from scratch.
- Basic concepts of Yii - The Object and Component class, Path aliases and autoloading
- MVC - Implementation of MVC in Yii and a typical MVC application flow
- Model - The Yii Model provides Attributes, Scenarios and data Validation
- View - Rendering Views applying layouts, using Widgets and asset management
- Controller - controller actions, routing and action filters
- Event Handling - The Yii event handling mechanism
- Behaviors
- Basics - Connecting to a database, basic queries, transactions and schema manipulation
- Query Builder - Querying the database using a simple abstraction layer
- ActiveRecord - The active record ORM, retrieving and manipulatings records and defining relations
- Database Migration - Versioning your database with database migrations
- Composer - How to manage applications dependencies via composer
- Extending Yii
- Template engines - Using template engines such as Smary or Twig
- Authentication - Identifying Users
- Authorization - Access control and RBAC
- Security - Hashing and verifying passwords, encryption
- Views security - how to prevent XSS
- Overview
- Data providers
- Grids
- Lists
- Asset Management
- Working with forms
- Bootstrap widgets - Using twitter bootstrap
- Theming
- Caching - Caching data, page fragments and http requests
- Internationalization - Message translation and formatting
- URL Management - routing, customized urls and SEO
- Console Application
- Performance Tuning
- Testing