The definitive guide to Yii 3.0

This guide is released under the Terms of Yii Documentation.

Introduction +

• About Yii +
• Upgrading from version 2.0 +

Getting started -

• What do you need to know +
• Creating a project +
• Running applications +
• Saying hello +
• Working with forms +
• Working with databases !
• Generating code with Gii -
• Looking ahead +

Application structure +

• Application structure overview +
• Entry scripts +
• Application +
• Service components +
• Actions +
• Domain +
• Middleware +
• Packages +

Key concepts +

• Class autoloading +
• Dependency injection container +
• Configuration +
• Aliases +
• Events +

Handling requests +

• Routing and URL generation +
• Request +
• Response +
• Sessions +
• Cookies +
• Handling errors +
• Logging +

Views -

• Views -
• Widgets -
• Assets -
• Working with client scripts -
• Theming -
• Template engines -

Working with databases +-

• Database access objects: Connecting to a database, basic queries, transactions, and schema manipulation
• Query builder: Querying the database using a simple abstraction layer
• Active record: The Active Record ORM, retrieving and manipulating records, and defining relations
• Migrations: +

Getting data from users -

• Creating forms -
• Validating input +
• Uploading files -
• Collecting tabular input -

Displaying data -

• Data formatting -
• Pagination -
• Sorting -
• Data providers -
• Data widgets -

Security +-

• Security overview +
• Authentication +
• Authorization +-
• Working with passwords +
• Cryptography +
• Best practices +

Caching +-

• Caching overview +
• Data caching +
• Fragment caching -
• Page caching -
• HTTP caching -

REST APIs -

• Quick start
• Resources
• Controllers
• Routing
• Authentication
• Rate limiting
• Versioning
• Error handling

Development tools -

• Debug toolbar and debugger
• Generating code using Gii
• Generating API documentation

Testing -

• Testing overview
• Testing environment setup
• Unit tests
• Functional tests
• Acceptance tests
• Fixtures

Special topics -

• Building application from scratch -
• Console applications +
• Docker -
• Internationalization -
• Mailing +
• Performance tuning +
• Using Yii with event loop +
• Using Yii with RoadRunner +
• Using Yii with Swoole +

Widgets -

• GridView
• ListView
• DetailView
• ActiveForm
• Menu
• LinkPager
• LinkSorter
• Bootstrap widgets

Helpers +

• Arrays
• Files
• Html
• Json
• Network utilities
• VarDumper
• Strings

Extras +

• Glossary