Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Under the Hood
Chapter 2: Router, Controller, and Views
Chapter 3: AJAX and jQuery
Chapter 4: Working with Forms
Chapter 5: Testing your Application
Chapter 6: Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
Chapter 7: Using Zii Components
Chapter 8: Extending Yii
Chapter 9: Error handling, Debugging, and Logging
Chapter 10: Security
Chapter 11: Performance Tuning
Chapter 12: Using External Code
Chapter 13: Deployment
Index
- Chapter 1: Under the Hood
- Introduction
- Using getters and setters
- Using Yii events
- Using import and autoloading
- Using exceptions
- Configuring components
- Configuring widget defaults
- Using Yii core collections
- Working with request
- Chapter 2: Router, Controller, and Views
- Introduction
- Configuring URL rules
- Generating URLs by path
- Using regular expressions in URL rules
- Creating URL rules for static pages
- Providing your own URL rules at runtime
- Using base controller
- Using external actions
- Displaying static pages with CViewAction
- Using flash messages
- Using controller context in a view
- Reusing views with partials
- Using clips
- Using decorators
- Defining multiple layouts
- Paginating and sorting data
- Chapter 3: AJAX and jQuery
- Introduction
- Loading a block through AJAX
- Managing assets
- Including resources into the page
- Working with JSON
- Passing configuration from PHP to JavaScript
- Handling variable number of inputs
- Chapter 4: Working with Forms
- Introduction
- Writing your own validators
- Uploading files
- Adding CAPTCHA
- Customizing CAPTCHA
- Creating a custom input widget with CInputWidget
- Chapter 5: Testing your Application
- Introduction
- Setting up the testing environment
- Writing and running unit tests
- Using fixtures
- Testing the application with functional tests
- Generating code coverage reports
- Chapter 6: Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
- Introduction
- Getting data from a database
- Defining and using multiple DB connections
- Using scopes to get models for different languages
- Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
- Applying markdown and HTML
- Highlighting code with Yii
- Automating timestamps
- Setting an author automatically
- Implementing single table inheritance
- Using CDbCriteria
- Chapter 7: Using Zii Components
- Introduction
- Using data providers
- Using grids
- Using lists
- Creating custom grid columns
- Chapter 8: Extending Yii
- Introduction
- Creating model behaviors
- Creating components
- Creating reusable controller actions
- Creating reusable controllers
- Creating a widget
- Creating CLI commands
- Creating filters
- Creating modules
- Creating a custom view renderer
- Making extensions distribution-ready
- Chapter 9: Error handling, Debugging, and Logging
- Introduction
- Using different log routes
- Analyzing the Yii error stack trace
- Logging and using the context information
- Implementing your own smart 404 handler
- Chapter 10: Security
- Introduction
- Using controller filters
- Using CHtml and CHtmlPurifier to prevent XSS
- Preventing SQL injections
- Preventing CSRF
- Using RBAC
- Chapter 11: Performance Tuning
- Introduction
- Following best practices
- Speeding up sessions handling
- Using cache dependencies and chains
- Profiling an application with Yii
- Chapter 12: Using External Code
- Introduction
- Using Zend Framework from Yii
- Customizing the Yii autoloader
- Using Kohana inside Yii
- Using PEAR inside Yii
- Chapter 13: Deployment
- Introduction
- Changing the Yii directories layout
- Moving an application out of webroot
- Sharing the framework directory
- Moving configuration parts into separate files
- Using multiple configurations to simplify the deployment
- Implementing and executing cron jobs
- Maintenance mode
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