Preface

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework designed from the ground up to develop modern web applications and APIs that can run in a multi-device environment.

Yii comes with rich set of features including MVC, ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, code generation, testing, and REST based API framework. Together with a comprehensive set of documentation and a enthusiastic user community Yii can reduce your development time significantly compared with other frameworks.

What's the book about?

This book is for you if you're familiar with Yii 2.0 and building Yii applications plus familiar with the official Yii guide. It covers fundamentally important Yii concepts and dives into subjects that will help you develop even faster, more reliable Yii applications.

The book consists of individual recipes gathered from Yii experts that you can apply in your applications. Recipes are grouped by chapter but you are free to read them in any order as there is no dependency between them.

Prerequisites

• You should have Yii 2.0 installed.
• You should be familiar with the framework basics and the official guide.

How to participate

If you've found any errata, incorrect information, know how to improve something or have a good recipe for the book, either create an issue or make a pull request in the book github repository.