Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 - Softcover

Jeffrey Winesett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847199585 ISBN 13: 9781847199584

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

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 - teaching by practice rather than theory. Overview A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework Take a test-driven design (TDD) approach to software development utilizing the Yii testing framework Write less code by using Yii's application generation and scaffolding tools Enhance your application by adding Web feeds, adapting it to multiple languages, and by utilizing themes to provide beautiful skins and design flexibility What you will learn from this book Take a "test first" approach to software development using the Yii testing framework Auto-generate skeleton web applications as well as CRUD scaffolding for the domain object model using the built-in command-line interface Create user-based applications with Yii's authentication model Enhance your user-based application to control a user's access to feature functionality Write an administrative console application to extend the features provided by Yii's powerful command-line tools Integrate other frameworks and libraries into a Yii application to further extend its feature set Spend less time managing application configuration by taking advantage of Yii's sensible defaults and conventions. Learn how easy it is to implement a multi-user application by utilizing Yii's authentication and role-based authorization models Update your code to properly mange the user's last login time and store it in the database Achieve pre- and post-action method request processing using controller filters Tap into the CActiveRecord validation workflow to allow for pre- and

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About the Author

Jeffrey Winesett

Jeffrey Winesett is director of application development at Control Group, Inc. in New York City. He has been building large-scale web-based applications for over 10 years and has been a champion of the Yii framework since its initial alpha version. He frequently publishes articles on specific Yii topics and uses Yii + PHP whenever possible on development projects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847199585
• ISBN 13: 9781847199584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368