Yii2 Application Development Solutions - Volume 1 - Udemy

Yii is a free, open-source web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development time and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product. Being extremely performance optimized, Yii is a perfect choice for any size project. You have full control over the configuration from head-to-toe (presentation-to-persistence) to conform to your enterprise development guidelines. It comes packaged with tools to help test and debug your application and has clear and comprehensive documentation.

This video course is a collection of Yii2 videos. Each video is represented as a full and independent item, which showcases solutions from real web-applications. So you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 fast and without tears… In this video, you will get started by learning how to install Yii Framework and about application templates, dependency injection container, and model events. You will also learn how to use the external code and how to update your yii-1.x.x based application to yii2. Then, you will see some handy things about the Yii URL router, controllers, and views. The course then proceeds to discuss the three main methods to work with databases in Yii: Active Record, query builder, and direct SQL queries through DAO. Then we will see the working of Forms in Yii and how to keep the application secure. We will look at creating our own controller filters, preventing XSS, CSRF, and SQL injections, and using role-based access control. Later, you will learn to write RESTful Web Services using Yii2. Finally, the course ends by teaching you to install and use official extensions in your project.

This course will show you how to easily get started, configure your environment, and be ready to write web applications efficiently and quickly.

About the Author

Dmitry Eliseev has been a web developer since 2008 and specializes in server-side programming on the PHP and PHP frameworks. Since 2012 he has authored his personal blog, about web development in general and about the Yii Framework in particular. His blog has become a well-known resource in the Russian Yii community.

Dmitry is interested in developmental best practices, software architectures, object-oriented programming, and other approaches.

He is an author and a presenter of practical courses about the principles and best practices of object-oriented programming and the use of version control systems. And also he is an author of webinars, the Yii2 Framework, and common developmental subjects. He practices teaching and counseling by development on frameworks and using the principles of software design and improvements in common code quality. This is his first book.

Andrey Bogdanov is seasoned web-developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than 6 years of industrial development. Since 2010 have been interested in Yii and MVC frameworks. Take a part in projects which had been written Yii such work aggregator for UK company, high-load project, real estating projects and development of private projects for government.

He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP, MySQL which includes Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP etc. Also having good hands in integrating third party APIs like Payment gateways (Paypal, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin), he is very good in slicing and frontend. So he can provide full information about Yii framework.

He is also well-versed in PHP/MYSQL, Yii 1.x.x, Yii 2.x.x, Ajax, Jquery, MVC frameworks, Python, LAMP, HTML/CSS, mercurial, git, angular.js, adaptive markup

In free time he likes to visit and talk with new people and discus web-developments problems.