Chapter 1. Starting with Yii2
Yii2 is a complete rewrite of the first version of one of the most famous PHP frameworks. It is a well-documented framework with a very active community.
Officially, we can find three types of support: a guide, for a complete navigation through framework topics at http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-index.html, a reference to explore all classes that compose the framework at http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/index.html, and finally forum support at http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/.
In this chapter, we will go through the following:
- Requirements and tools
- Installing Yii2 with Composer
- Application structure
- Application properties
- Common application components
- Handling application events
- Pattern MVC in Yii2
- Naming convention
- Configuring debug toolbar
- Using logger
- Example – hello world from scratch with the Yii basic template and bootstrap template
