Yii MVC PHP Framework Hello World Tutorial

Yii MVC PHP Framework Hello World Tutorial

Today’s tutorial is a Hello World tutorial for Yii, to quote Wikipedia …

Yii is an open source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework. Yii is pronounced as “Yee” or [ji:] and in Chinese it means “simple and evolutionary” and it can be acronym for “Yes It Is!”.

The MVC stands for Model View Controller … (from Wikipedia again) …

Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software architectural pattern mostly for implementing user interfaces.

It makes a fair bit of difference what version you talk about with Yii, and we are talking about Yii 2 today.

You can get up and going with a Hello World level of Yii usage really quickly (especially with the great advice of How to Program with Yii2: Getting Started – Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial … thanks), and we can say, basically that the major steps for us, integrating it with MAMP (Mac Apache local web server) and a Linux operating system involved …

1. installing composer, a tool for dependency management in PHP, via …
   
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/bin
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
composer require yiisoft/yii2
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/composer.phar /usr/bin/composer
   … ℹ … that can also be found on the GitHub source repository
2. composer setup specific to Hello World project …
   
cd ~/Sites
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.0.0-beta2"
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic hello
   … ℹ … in addition we found that we needed to …
   
mkdir ~/Sites/hello/vendor/bower/bootstrap
mkdir ~/Sites/hello/vendor/bower/bootstrap/dist
mkdir ~/Sites/hello/vendor/bower/jquery
mkdir ~/Sites/hello/vendor/bower/jquery/dist
   … ℹ
3. create software to help out MAMP via …
   
cd /Applications/MAMP/htdocs
ln -s ~/Sites/hello/ /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/hello
   … ℹ
4. point your web browser at …
   http://localhost:8888/hello/web … ℹ

You can do great organizational and fast and guaranteed and consistent PHP web work using Yii Framework. Just imagine a CRUD idea you have, and Yii could be a great option for you. Here’s a slideshow of highlights of today’s Hello World website create using the Yii 2 MVC PHP framework.

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