Learning Path: Yii 2: Design Applications with PHP

Learning Path: Yii 2: Design Applications with PHP, available at $39.99, has an average rating of 2.4, with 123 lectures, based on 64 reviews, and has 392 subscribers.

You will learn about Explore Yii 2 framework and application development using it. Write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts, Yii’s core functionality, and the best practices in Web 2.0. Learn to use Yii 2 with different JavaScript Frameworks and libraries such as WebSockets, Angular, Ember, Backbone, React. Develop a deep understanding of writing RESTful Web Services using Yii 2 and its built-in features. Get data from database, and deal with Active Record, migrations, widgets, and core features. Implement your own Yii extension and make your extension reusable and useful for the community. Gain knowledge on the best technologies, such as Codeception, PHPUnit, Atoum, and Behat. Build attractive user interface for your application with Twitter Bootstrap framework. This course is ideal for individuals who are This Learning Path is for PHP developers who want to use the new features of Yii 2 to develop modern web applications. Also, people who have already worked on the Yii 1 version framework and want to migrate to Yii 2 will find this Learning Path useful. It is particularly useful for This Learning Path is for PHP developers who want to use the new features of Yii 2 to develop modern web applications. Also, people who have already worked on the Yii 1 version framework and want to migrate to Yii 2 will find this Learning Path useful.

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Title: Learning Path: Yii 2: Design Applications with PHP

Price: $39.99

Average Rating: 2.4

Number of Lectures: 123

Number of Published Lectures: 120

Number of Curriculum Items: 123

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 120

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Explore Yii 2 framework and application development using it.
Write your applications more efficiently using shortcuts, Yii’s core functionality, and the best practices in Web 2.0.
Learn to use Yii 2 with different JavaScript Frameworks and libraries such as WebSockets, Angular, Ember, Backbone, React.
Develop a deep understanding of writing RESTful Web Services using Yii 2 and its built-in features.
Get data from database, and deal with Active Record, migrations, widgets, and core features.
Implement your own Yii extension and make your extension reusable and useful for the community.
Gain knowledge on the best technologies, such as Codeception, PHPUnit, Atoum, and Behat.
Build attractive user interface for your application with Twitter Bootstrap framework.

Who Should Attend

This Learning Path is for PHP developers who want to use the new features of Yii 2 to develop modern web applications. Also, people who have already worked on the Yii 1 version framework and want to migrate to Yii 2 will find this Learning Path useful.

Target Audiences

This Learning Path is for PHP developers who want to use the new features of Yii 2 to develop modern web applications. Also, people who have already worked on the Yii 1 version framework and want to migrate to Yii 2 will find this Learning Path useful.

Are you a PHP developer working on Yii framework? Do you want explore the new features of Yii 2 for creating fast-paced, secured web 2.0 based applications? If yes, this Learning Path is for you.

Yii is a high-performance, component-based PHP framework for rapidly developing modern web applications. The name Yii can be considered as the acronym for Yes It Is!. Yii 2 inherits the main spirit behind Yii for being a simple, fast, highly-extensible PHP framework.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

This Learning Path begins with installing Yii 2 framework, learning about application templates, dependency injection container, and model events. Then, you’ll learn to use your external code along with updating your existing Yii 1 applications to Yii 2. Also, you’ll be familiar with some main methods for working with databases in Yii 2, such as Active Record, Query Builder, and direct SQL queries through DAO. Next, you’ll learn to write RESTful Web Services using Yii 2. Further, you’ll learn to deploy and test your applications securely with introduction to some best technologies, such as Codeception, PHPUnit, Atoum, and Behat. As the Learning Path progresses, you’ll be introduced to Git and its most used commands to work smoothly in a distributed team. You’ll also learn to develop customized and reliable web applications along with making these applications responsive using Twitter Bootstrap framework. Finally, you’ll learn to secure your applications by encrypting and decrypting data using Yii 2 components.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a deep understanding of the new and advanced features and concepts introduced in Yii 2 framework and application development practices using it.

About the Authors:

For this course, we have combined the best works of these esteemed authors:

Alexander Makarov is an experienced engineer from Russia and has been an Yii framework core team member since 2010. Before joining the Yii core team, he participated in the growth of the CodeIgniter community in Russia. . He has been a technical reviewer for books on Yii as well.

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 authorized 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.

Andrew Bogdanov is a seasoned web developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than six years of experience in industrial development. Since 2010 he has been interested in the Yii and MVC frameworks. He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP and MySQL, including Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP, and so on. He is very good in slicing and frontend, so he can provide full information about the Yii framework.

Vitalii Tron has about 7 years of experience in programming and he has been developing Yii-based applications for 4 years. He graduated from the Sumy State University in the Mechanical-Mathematics School of Computer Science department. He also successfully finished post-graduate courses at the same department. Vitalii has amazing job history at Elance, where his clients have left delighted feedback about his work.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Yii2 Application Development Solutions – Volume 1

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Installing the Framework

Lecture 3: Dependency Injection Container

Lecture 4: Service Locator

Lecture 5: Code Generation

Lecture 6: Configuring Components

Lecture 7: Working with Events

Lecture 8: Using External Code

Lecture 9: Configuring URL Rules

Lecture 10: Generating URLs

Lecture 11: Using Regular Expressions in URL Rules

Lecture 12: Using a base controller

Lecture 13: Using Standalone Actions

Lecture 14: Creating a Custom Filter

Lecture 15: Displaying Static Pages

Lecture 16: Using Flash Messages

Lecture 17: Using the Controller Context in a View

Lecture 18: Reusing Views with Partials

Lecture 19: Using Blocks

Lecture 20: Using Decorators

Lecture 21: Defining Multiple Layouts

Lecture 22: Pagination and Sorting Data

Lecture 23: Getting Data from a Database

Lecture 24: Defining and Using Multiple DB Connections

Lecture 25: Customizing the ActiveQuery Class

Lecture 26: Processing Model Fields with AR Event-like Methods

Lecture 27: Automating Timestamps

Lecture 28: Setting Up an Author Automatically

Lecture 29: Setting Up a Slug Automatically

Lecture 30: Transactions

Lecture 31: Replication and Read-write Splitting

Lecture 32: Implementing Single-table Inheritance

Lecture 33: Writing your Own Validators

Lecture 34: Uploading Files

Lecture 35: Adding and Customizing CaptchaWidget

Lecture 36: Customizing Captcha

Lecture 37: Creating a Custom Input Widget

Lecture 38: Tabular Input

Lecture 39: Complex Forms with Multiple Models

Lecture 40: AJAX Validation

Lecture 41: Authentication

Lecture 42: Using Controller Filters

Lecture 43: Preventing XSS

Lecture 44: Preventing SQL injections

Lecture 45: Preventing CSRF

Lecture 46: Using RBAC

Lecture 47: Encrypting/Decrypting Data

Lecture 48: Creating a REST Server

Lecture 49: Authenticating REST APIs

Lecture 50: Rate Limiting

Lecture 51: Versioning

Lecture 52: Error Handling

Lecture 53: Authentication Client

Lecture 54: SwiftMailer E-mail Library

Lecture 55: Faker Fixture Data Generator

Lecture 56: Imagine Library

Lecture 57: MongoDB Driver

Chapter 2: Yii2 Application Development Solutions – Volume 2

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: ElasticSearch Engine Adapter

Lecture 3: Gii Code Generator

Lecture 4: PJax jQuery Plugin

Lecture 5: Redis Database Driver

Lecture 6: Creating Helpers

Lecture 7: Creating Model Behaviors

Lecture 8: Creating Components

Lecture 9: Creating Reusable Controller Actions

Lecture 10: Creating Reusable Controllers

Lecture 11: Creating a Widget

Lecture 12: Creating CLI Commands

Lecture 13: Creating Filters

Lecture 14: Creating Modules

Lecture 15: Creating a Custom View Renderer

Lecture 16: Creating a Multilanguage Application

Lecture 17: Making Extensions Distribution-Ready

Lecture 18: Following Best Practices

Lecture 19: Speeding Up Session Handling

Lecture 20: Using Cache Dependencies and Chains

Lecture 21: Profiling an Application with Yii

Lecture 22: Leveraging HTTP Caching

Lecture 23: Combining and Minimizing Assets

Lecture 24: Running Yii2 on HHVM

Lecture 25: Changing the Yii Directory Layout

Lecture 26: Moving an Application Webroot

Lecture 27: Changing an Advanced Application Template

Lecture 28: Moving Configuration Parts into Separate

Lecture 29: Using Multiple Configurations to Simplify the Deployment

Lecture 30: Implementing and Executing Cron Jobs

Lecture 31: Maintenance Mode

Lecture 32: Deployment Tools

Lecture 33: Testing Application with Codeception

Lecture 34: Unit Testing with PHPUnit

Lecture 35: Unit Testing with Atoum

Lecture 36: Unit Testing with Behat

Lecture 37: Using Different Log Routes

Lecture 38: Analyzing the Yii Error Stack Trace

Lecture 39: Logging and Using the Context Information

Lecture 40: Displaying Custom Errors

Lecture 41: Custom Panel for Debug Extension

Instructors

Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion

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2 stars: 8 votes
3 stars: 11 votes
4 stars: 16 votes
5 stars: 12 votes

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