Yii Application Development Cookbook（Second Edition）

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Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Chapter 1. Under the Hood

Introduction

Using getters and setters

Using Yii events

Using import and autoloading

Using exceptions

Configuring components

Configuring widget defaults

Using Yii core collections

Working with requests

Chapter 2. Router Controller and Views

Introduction

Configuring URL rules

Generating URLs by path

Using regular expressions in URL rules

Creating URL rules for static pages

Providing your own URL rules at runtime

Using a base controller

Using external actions

Displaying static pages with CViewAction

Using flash messages

Using the controller context in a view

Reusing views with partials

Using clips

Using decorators

Defining multiple layouts

Paginating and sorting data

Chapter 3. AJAX and jQuery

Introduction

Loading a block through AJAX

Managing assets

Including resources in the page

Working with JSON

Passing configuration from PHP to JavaScript

Handling variable number of inputs

Rendering content at the client side

Chapter 4. Working with Forms

Introduction

Writing your own validators

Uploading files

Adding CAPTCHA

Customizing CAPTCHA

Creating a custom input widget with CInputWidget

Chapter 5. Testing Your Application

Introduction

Setting up the testing environment

Writing and running unit tests

Using fixtures

Testing the application with functional tests

Generating code coverage reports

Chapter 6. Database Active Record and Model Tricks

Introduction

Getting data from a database

Defining and using multiple DB connections

Using scopes to get models for different languages

Processing model fields with AR event-like methods

Applying markdown and HTML

Highlighting code with Yii

Automating timestamps

Setting up an author automatically

Implementing single table inheritance

Using CDbCriteria

Chapter 7. Using Zii Components

Introduction

Using data providers

Using grids

Using lists

Creating custom grid columns

Chapter 8. Extending Yii

Introduction

Creating model behaviors

Creating components

Creating reusable controller actions

Creating reusable controllers

Creating a widget

Creating CLI commands

Creating filters

Creating modules

Creating a custom view renderer

Making extensions distribution-ready

Chapter 9. Error Handling Debugging and Logging

Introduction

Using different log routes

Analyzing the Yii error stack trace

Logging and using the context information

Implementing your own smart 404 handler