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Mastering Yii

You're reading from   Mastering Yii Advance your modern web application development skills with Yii Framework 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882425
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Charles R. Portwood ll Charles R. Portwood ll
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Preface 1. Composer, Configuration, Classes, and Path Aliases FREE CHAPTER 2. Console Commands and Applications 3. Migrations, DAO, and Query Building 4. Active Record, Models, and Forms 5. Modules, Widgets, and Helpers 6. Asset Management 7. Authenticating and Authorizing Users 8. Routing, Responses, and Events 9. RESTful APIs 10. Testing with Codeception 11. Internationalization and Localization 12. Performance and Security 13. Debugging and Deploying Index

Responses


After finishing the processing of the request object, Yii2 then generates a response object, which is sent back to the client. The response contains a myriad of information, such as the HTTP status code, response body, and headers. In Yii2, the response object is implemented by yii\web\Response, which is represented by the response application component. In this section, we'll explore how to work with responses.

Setting status codes

In most cases, Yii2 is perfectly capable of setting the appropriate response code back to the end user; however, there may be situations that require us to explicitly define the HTTP response code for our application. To modify the HTTP status code within our application, we simply need to set yii\web\Response::$statusCode to a valid HTTP status code:

\Yii::$app->response->statusCode = 200;

Web exceptions

By default, Yii2 will return an HTTP 200 status code for any successful request. If we want to adjust the status code without interrupting our flow...

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