Know About Yii2 The Best Reasons For Popular Today

As we know a PHP framework is a platform to create PHP web applications that provide libraries of code or functions for common tasks for a faster, secure, efficient, and easy development process of the robust and modern web application.

What is Yii?

The Yii is a next-generation, efficient, and secure PHP framework that is based on components.

Version history -

Yii has been launched in December 2008. There are two main versions of the Yii - 1.1 and 2.0. The new version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of Yii launched in October 2014 which uses the latest technologies and protocols of PHP including Composer, PSR, namespace, traits, and many more. The current stable release of Yii is 2.0.45

Requirements and prerequisites -

Yii 2.0 requires PHP 5.4.0 or above and works(recommended) best with the latest version of PHP 7.

Database Interaction -

It uses and supports SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, or Oracle databases

Licensing -

Yii is released under the fixed terms of the BSD License. It is free software so you can use it freely for creating modern applications. The Yii documentation is licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) so you can copy, distribute and/or modify it.

Architecture -

Yii applications use the Model View Controller(MVC) approach for organizing the whole application. The Model part is used for storing the business logic and rules, and application data. The view acts as a presentation layer that shows the data passed by the model. The controllers take user input from view and convert it to in command for passing it to Model.

You can install Yii using the "Yii2 installation using composure method" help article.

Why should you use Yii -

The following are the facts and reasons that will explain to you for implementing the Yii framework in your web application which also shows the best resons for Yii2 popular today -

• 1. Quick application development -

  In Yii, you can start, run and launch the application quickly in minutes.
  
  

• 2. Architecture -

  It implements MVC(Model View Controller) design approach for efficient code organization.
  
  

• 3. Documentation -

  The Yii guide and documentation is well written and provide an easy learning process for different aspects of the Yii framework.
  
  

• 4. Ready-to-use features -

  It provides many inbuilt ready-made codes or features e.g. - Gii code generator, query builders and ActiveRecord, RESTful API development support, multi-tier caching support, etc.
  
  

• 5. Third-party supports -

  The Yii is very extensible for customization and code management and supports running third-party code within the Yii application.
  
  

• 6. Secure and strong security supports -

  The Yii maintains strong security measures for example - bcrypt password hashing, encryption, authentication, preventing SQL injection, XSS, and CSRF attacks.
  
  

• 7. Efficient caching system to speed up application load -

  It uses different types of a strong and efficient way of caching technology to speed up application performance e. g. – HTTP, data, fragment, page caching.
  
  

• 8. Yii framework community -

  There are multiple mediums available for the Yii framework community e.g. - forum, Facebook group, hall of fame, badges, etc. For live chat - the Yii community offers instant help or support either via Slack or IRC channel.
  
  

Best for -

It can be used for developing different types of web application that uses PHP as a scripting language. It is very suitable for developing large-scale applications - e. g. web portals, content management systems(CMS), blogs, forums, e-commerce web projects, RESTful web services etc.

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Best Books for Web Development in PHP

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1

Programming PHP : Creating Dynamic Web Pages

Book Description

It's the new and updated version of this book - Fourth Edition - that teaches you everything you need to know to build effective web applications using the latest features in PHP 7.4.

The book explains language syntax, programming techniques, and other details using examples that illustrate both correct usage and common idioms.

For those with a working knowledge of HTML, the book contains many style tips and practical programming advice in a clear and concise manner to help you become a top PHP programmer.

The book teaches about fundamentals of the language including data types, variables, operators and flow control statements. It explores about functions, strings, arrays and objects.

It teaches to apply common web application techniques, such as form processing, data validation, session tracking, and cookies.

It teaches to interact with relational databases such as MySQL or NoSQL databases such as MongoDB. It also teaches to generate dynamic images, creating PDF files, and parsing XML files.

You can learn about secure scripts, error handling, performance tuning and other advanced topics in this book.

You can get a quick reference to PHP core functions and standard extensions in this book.

Book details

Format: Kindle Edition, Paperback
Rating: 4.6 out of 5
Author: Kevin Tatroe, Peter Macintyre
Print Length: 540 pages
Publication Date: 27 March 2020
Publisher: O′Reilly, 4th edition
Kindle Price: Rs. 1,567.50*
Paperback Price: Rs. 3,614.00*
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2

PHP Web Development with Laminas

Book Description

This book teaches how to build fully secure and functional e-commerce applications with PHP using the next generation Zend Framework-Laminas. You can learn to develop modern object-oriented applications with PHP by using Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) aided by mature reusable components.

This book provides a practical approach to equip you with the knowledge of the Laminas framework needed to start building web applications based on reuse of loosely coupled components.

You will learn how to build the basic structure of a PHP web application divided into layers. You can understand the MVC components of Laminas and be able to take advantage of the Eclipse platform as a method to develop with Laminas.

Books teach to explore how object-relational mapping is implemented with Laminas-DB, behavior-driven development concepts to sharpen your skills, how to build complete models and reusable components, practice testing How to Create HTML Forms With Laminas-Forms.

By the end of this web development book, you will be able to build completely secure MVC applications in PHP language using Laminas.

Book details

Format: Kindle Edition
Author: Flávio Gomes da Silva Lisboa
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Enhanced typesetting: Not Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Publication Date: 9 December 2022
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Kindle Price: Rs. 750.74*
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3

Getting started with Laravel 9, master the most popular PHP framework

Book Description

This book is for all those who want to build their first application in Laravel 9. This book provides a step-by-step introduction to the writing framework, gets to know its most relevant aspects and focuses above all on practice.

Using this book you will be able to build any basic application with the framework. There are total 19 chapters in this book. Using this book, you will be able to know what are the required software to install Laravel for different operating systems.

In this book you can learn - project creation, database configuration, routing, view controllers, redirection, directive and templating engines in the form of blades, model building, CRUD applications etc.

You can learn to perform common eloquent operations that can be applied to databases using query builders. You can learn how to generate test data using classes.

You can also learn the file upload process. You can learn how to use REST APIs through CRUD type applications in VU3 using Axios requests and web components with Oruga UI.

You can also learn how to configure Browsersync with Laravel to automatically reload applications. You can learn how to protect an app in Vue with the login required to access its various modules using SPA authentication or Laravel Sanctum tokens.

Book details

Format: Kindle Edition
Rating: 1 out of 5
Author: Andrés Cruz Yoris
Print Length: 453 pages
Publication Date: 8 May 2022
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Kindle Price: Rs. 449.00*
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4

Learning Drupal as a framework: Your guide to custom Drupal 9. Full code included

Book Description

This book uses PHP> 7.4. This course teaches you about the advanced concepts of Drupal 9, object-oriented PHP and Symfony components.

After the course, you will be able to build a variety of robust and scalable software solutions.

This book discusses advanced topics such as custom entities, entity forms, access controls, events, caching, workflows, and more when building real software.

It gives you powerful and ready-to-use snippets for your next Drupal project with +2400 lines of custom code.

Book details

Format: Kindle Edition
Rating: 5 out of 5
Author: Stef Van Looveren
Print Length: 282 pages
Publication Date: 17 July 2022
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Kindle Price: Rs. 449.00*
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5

Getting started with CodeIgniter 4

Book Description

This book is for anyone who wants to build their first applications in CodeIgniter 4 a popular PHP framework, this writing offers a step-by-step introduction to the framework, knowing the most relevant aspects of it, and is focused above all on practice.

The book is aimed at those people who want to learn something new, learn about a framework that has very little documentation, who want to improve a skill in web development, who want to grow as a developer, and who want to continue scaling their path with other frameworks superior to this one.

This book has a total of 15 chapters and consists of explanations and practices. It teaches you how to run the framework, how to configure a database, how to create the first components, how to use of migrations for table management, working with the MVC, how to prepare CRUD application, how to use the routes, grouped routes, their options, and the different types.

You can learn about the use of the session and also of the flash session to save data and present it to the user. You can learn to manage views in a reusable way. You can learn about how to work with HTML forms and apply validations from the server side in CodeIgniter. You can learn about the authentication module with the login interface, and how to build a Rest Api type CRUD that can be consumed with JSON or XML.

You can also learn about generating test data with seeders, how to handle the relational schema of the database, how to do uploading files in the application, how to use libraries and help functions, how to integrate the PayPal platform, etc.

Book details

Format: Kindle Edition
Author: Andres Cruz
Print Length: 328 pages
Publication Date: 13 May 2022
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X-Ray: Not Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Kindle Price: Rs. 319.00*
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