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Explore the advanced concepts of the Yii2 framework to create modern web applications quickly…

What you’ll learn

Implement your own Yii extension and make your extension reusable and useful for the Community

Configure Yii to gain extra performance

Learn best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads

Learn how to show everyone except the developer a maintenance message.

Add an advanced configuration system to the yii2-app-basic application template

Use the best technologies for testing, such as Codeception, PhpUnit, Atoum, and Behat.

Write simple tests and avoid regression errors in your application.

Review logging, analyze exception stack traces, and implement your own error handler.

Requirements

The sections in this video are independent and offer a practical approach to Yii development. All videos are explained with step-by-step code examples and real-world business logic.

Description

Yii is an optimal, high-performance PHP framework for developing Web 2.0 applications. It provides fast, secure, and professional features to create robust projects; however, this rapid development requires the ability to organize common tasks collectively to build a complete application. Being extremely performance-optimized, Yii is the perfect choice for projects of any size. 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, showcasing solutions from real web applications. So you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 rapidly and painlessly…

In this video, you will get started by configuring your Yii2 application. After that, we will focus on how to make our extension as efficient as possible. Then we will cover some best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads. Moving ahead, we will provide various tips, which are especially useful in application deployment and when developing an application in a team. Later, we will introduce the best technologies for testing and we will see how to write simple tests and avoid regression errors in our application.

Finally, we conclude this course by discussing review logging, analyzing the exception stack trace, and implementing our own error handler.

About the Authors

Andrew Bogdanovis 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 taken part in projects written in Yii, such as a work aggregator for a UK company, high-load projects, real-estate projects, and the development of private projects for the government.

He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP and MySQL, including Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP, and so on. Also, he is adroit at integrating third-party APIs such as Payment gateways (PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). He is very good in slicing and frontend, so he can provide full information about the 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, AngularJS, and adaptive markup.

In his free , he likes to visit and talk with new people and discuss web development problems. He is currently working with professionals.

Dmitry Eliseev has been a web developer since 2008 and specializes in server-side programming on the PHP and PHP frameworks.

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. 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.

Alexander Makarov is an experienced eeer from Russia and has been a Yii framework core team member since 2010. Before joining the Yii core team, he participated in the growth of the Coditer community in Russia. In 2009, he finished the Russian translation of the framework documentation and created the Russian community website. In 2012, he released the Russian version of the book along with Russian community members. In the same year, he was a technical reviewer for three more books

The Yii Book: Developing Web Applications Using the Yii PHP Framework, Larry Ullman Web Application Development with Yii and PHP, Jeff Winesett Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot, Lauren O’Meara, and James Hamilton

In his free , Alexander speaks at conferences, and enjoys movies, music, traveling, photography, and languages. He currently resides in Voronezh, Russia with his beloved wife and daughter.

Overview

Section 1: Configuring Your Yii2 Application

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 ElasticSearch Ee Adapter

Lecture 3 Gii Code Generator

Lecture 4 PJax jQuery Plugin

Lecture 5 Redis Database Driver

Section 2: Extending Yii

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

Section 3: Performance Tuning

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

Section 4: Deployment

Lecture 25 Chag the Yii Directory Layout

Lecture 26 Moving an Application Webroot

Lecture 27 Chag an Advanced Application Template

Lecture 28 Moving Configuration Parts into Separate Files

Lecture 29 Using Multiple Configurations to Simplify the Deployment

Lecture 30 Implementing and Executing Cron Jobs

Lecture 31 Maintenance Mode

Lecture 32 Deployment Tools

Section 5: Testing

Lecture 33 Testing Application with Codeception

Lecture 34 Unit Testing with PHPUnit

Lecture 35 Unit Testing with Atoum

Lecture 36 Unit Testing with Behat

Section 6: Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling

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

This video is targeted at developers with a good knowledge of the PHP 5 and MVC frameworks, and those who have tried to develop applications using the Yii 1.x.x version. If you have still not tried Yii2, then this video is definitely for you!