Yii Project Blueprints

399 Pages·2014·4.26 MB·English

by  Charles R. Portwood II

Table of Contents
Yii Project Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. A Task-management Application
Describing the project
Tasks
Projects
Users
The database
The tasks table
The projects table
Users
Choosing a database technology
The tasks table
The projects table
The database overview
Initializing the project
Creating the database with migrations
Creating models with Gii
Enhancing the models
Updating the default validation rules
Defined relations
Removing tasks when a project is deleted
Retrieving the project metadata
Automatically setting the created and updated time
Creating the presentation layer
Managing projects
Creating the layout
Creating the project index action
Changing a project's completion state
Deleting projects
Creating and updating projects
Viewing tasks
Managing tasks
Preventing unauthorized access to our application
Requiring authentication with filters and access rules
Creating a controller for the authentication
Creating a login layout
Creating a login view
Identifying our users with the UserIdentity CUserIdentity class
Creating the login model
Finishing touches
Disabling Gii
Defining a default route
Adding extra routes
Summary
2. Discovering What's Nearby
Describing the project
Searching nearby locations
Showing locations
Storing locations
Importing locations
Designing the database
Locations
Initializing the project
Creating the configuration file
Retrieving the sample data
Creating the database
Creating the locations model
Importing the data feed
Google APIs
Enabling Google APIs
Generating an API key
Storing the API key
Creating the presentation layer
Interacting with the Google Maps JavaScript API
Searching nearby locations
Selecting a location
Showing locations on a map
Optimizing the performance with caching
Summary
3. Scheduled Reminders
Prerequisites
Describing the project
Users
Events
Reminders
The task runner
Initializing the project
Create a MySQL user and database
Creating a Yii configuration file
Creating a parameters configuration file
Adding Composer dependencies
Creating the database
The users migration
The reminders and events migration
Creating models
Model behaviors
The Users model
Bcrypt password hashing
The Reminders model
The Events model
Searching for events and displaying them
Custom routing for dates
Creating the controller for events
Creating the reminders controller
Creating the layout
Creating the main view
Creating the item view
Creating the event list view
Creating and saving events
Creating the controller to manage users
Creating users
Deleting users
Changing the user's password
Authenticating with Bcrypt
Requiring authentication
Sending e-mail reminders
Summary
4. Developing an Issue-tracking Application
Prerequisites
Describing the project
Users
Roles
Issues
Statuses
Updates
Receiving e-mails
Initializing the project
Managing users
Roles and authentication
Listing users
Deleting users
Creating and updating users
Viewing users and associated issues
Implementing the issue-management component
The Issues model
The Issues Update model
Showing issues that belong to the user
Searching for issues
Creating issues
Viewing and updating issues
E-mail views
Testing our application
Handling inbound e-mail parsing
Sending e-mails to SendGrid
Adjusting SendGrid Parse settings
Creating and updating issues over e-mail
Summary
5. Creating a Microblogging Platform
Prerequisites
Describing the project
Users
Followers
Likes
Shares
Initializing the project
Making a better Yii bootstrap file
Enabling users to manage their information
Upgrading our UserIdentity class
Defining user relations
Determining whether a user is following another user
Implementing a secure registration process
Handling forgotten passwords
Resetting a forgotten password
Enabling users to manage their details
Verifying a new e-mail address
Viewing a timeline of shares
Retrieving shares
Sharing new content
Resharing
Liking and unliking shares
Viewing shares
Searching for shares
Sharing on Twitter with HybridAuth
Setting up a Twitter application
Configuring HybridAuth
Implementing HybridAuth social sign-on and sharing
Summary
6. Building a Content Management System
Prerequisites
Describing the project
Users
Content
Categories
Search engine optimizations
Initializing the project
Exploring the skeleton project
Extending models from a common class
Creating a custom validator for slugs
View management with themes
Truly dynamic routing
Telling Yii to use our custom UrlManager
Displaying and managing content
Rendering the sitemap
Displaying a list view of content
Displaying content by ID
Adding comments to our CMS with Disqus
Searching for content
Managing content
Viewing and managing categories
Viewing entries in a category
Viewing an RSS feed for categories
Managing categories
Social authentication with HybridAuth
Validating remote identities
Remote registrations
Linking a social identity to an existing account
Authenticating with a social identity
Creating a Yii CWebUser object from a remote identity
Putting it all together
Exploring other HybridAuth providers
Summary
7. Creating a Management Module for the CMS
Prerequisites
What are modules?
Describing the project
Initializing the module
Routing with a module
Moving the management functionality into the module
Adding file upload capabilities
Deploying modules
Initializing the project
Creating the module
Registering the module with Yii
Adding custom routes to a module
Creating the controllers
Migrating the functionality to the module
Migrating content management
Migrating categories
Implementing user management
Uploading files
Creating the File class
Creating the FileUploader class
Creating the FileUpload class
Creating the controller for the file manager
Strategies for deploying our application
Deploying as the application
Deploying as a submodule
Deploying as a Composer dependency
Summary
8. Building an API for the CMS
Prerequisites
Describing the project
Configuring the module
Extending Yii to render JSON or XML in a RESTful way
Handling data input
Authenticating users to the API
Handling API exceptions
Handling data responses
Implementing actions
Initializing the project
Extending Yii to return data
Rendering data
Calling actions in a RESTful way
Authenticating users
Overloading CAccessControlFilter
Processing the incoming data
Handling errors
Exception handling
Custom error handling
Testing whether everything works
Authenticating users
Testing the authentication
Sending authenticated requests
Implementing CRUD actions
Deleting users
Retrieving users
Creating and updating users
Implementing other controller actions from the main application
Implementing categories and content API controllers
Documenting our API
Summary
Index
Yii Project Blueprints