Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Meet Yii
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: The TrackStar Application
Chapter 4: Iteration 1: Creating the Initial TrackStar Application
Chapter 5: Iteration 2: Project CRUD
Chapter 6: Iteration 3: Adding Tasks
Chapter 7: Iteration 4: User Management and Authentication
Chapter 8: Iteration 5: User Access Control
Chapter 9: Iteration 6: Adding User Comments
Chapter 10: Iteration 7: Adding an RSS Web Feed
Chapter 11: Iteration 8: Making it Pretty - Design, Layout, Themes, and Internationalization(i18n)
Chapter 12: Iteration 9: Modules - Adding Administration
Chapter 13: Iteration 10: Production Readiness
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Meet Yii
  • Yii is easy
  • Yii is efficient
  • Yii is extensible
  • MVC architecture
    • The model
    • The view
    • The controller
  • Stitching these together: Yii request routing
    • Blog posting example
  • Object-relational mapping and Active Record
    • Active Record
  • The view and controller
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started
  • Installing Yii
    • Installing a database
  • Creating a new application
  • Hello, World!
    • Creating the controller
    • One final step
    • Reviewing our request routing
  • Adding dynamic content
    • Adding the date and time
    • Adding the date and time, a better approach
      • Moving the data creation to the controller
    • Have you been paying attention?
  • Linking pages together
    • Linking to a new page
    • Getting a little help from Yii CHtml
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: The TrackStar Application
  • Introducing TrackStar
  • Creating user stories
    • Users
    • Projects
    • Issues
  • Navigation and page flow
  • Defining a data scheme
  • Defining our development methodology
    • Automated software testing
    • Unit and functional testing
    • Benefits of testing
    • Test-driven development
  • Testing in Yii
    • Unit tests
      • Installing PHPUnit
    • Functional tests
      • Installing Selenium
      • Running a quick example
    • Hello TDD!
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Iteration 1: Creating the Initial TrackStar Application
  • Iteration planning
  • Creating the new application
  • Connecting to the database
    • Testing the connection
      • Yii and databases
    • Adding a db connection as an application component
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Iteration 2: Project CRUD
  • Iteration planning
    • Running our test suite
  • Creating the project table
    • Naming conventions
  • Creating the AR model class
    • Configuring Gii
    • Using Gii to create our Project AR class
    • Testing out our newly generated code
      • Creating the unit test file
      • Testing create
      • Testing read
      • Testing update and delete
    • Was all that testing really necessary?
  • Enabling CRUD operations for users
    • Creating CRUD scaffolding for projects
    • Creating a new project
      • Adding a required field to our form
    • Reading the project
    • Updating and deleting projects
    • Managing projects in admin mode
  • More on testing—fixtures
    • Configuring the fixture manager
    • Creating a fixture
    • Configuring this fixture for use
    • Specifying a test database
      • Using fixtures
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Iteration 3: Adding Tasks
  • Iteration planning
  • Running the test suite
  • Designing the schema
    • Defining some relationships
    • Building the database and the relationships
  • Creating the Active Record model classes
    • Creating the Issue model class
    • Creating the User model class
  • Creating the Issue CRUD operations
    • Using the Issue CRUD operations
  • Creating a new Issue
    • Adding the types drop-down menu
    • Getting the test in the "Red"
    • Moving From "Red" To "Green"
    • Moving Back To "Red"
    • Getting back to "Green" once again
    • Adding the issue type dropdown
    • Adding the status drop-down menu: Do it yourself
  • Fixing the owner and requester fields
    • Enforcing a project context
    • Implementing a filter
    • Adding a filter
    • Specifying the filtered actions
    • Adding some filter logic
    • Adding the project ID
    • Altering the project details page
    • Removing the project input form field
  • Returning back to the owner and requester dropdowns
    • Generating the data to populate the drop-down menu
    • Adding User and ProjectUserAssignment fixtures
    • Making one last change
  • Finishing the rest of the CRUD
    • Listing the issues
    • Altering the ProjectController
      • Altering the project view file
  • Making some final tweaks
    • Getting the status and type text to display
    • Adding the text display to the form
    • Changing the issue detail view
    • Getting the owner and requester names to display
    • Using relational AR
  • Making some final navigation tweaks
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Iteration 4: User Management and Authentication
  • Iteration planning
  • Running the test suite
  • Creating our User CRUD
    • Updating our common audit history columns
    • Adding a password confirmation field
    • Adding password encryption
  • Authenticating users using the database
    • Introducing the Yii authentication model
      • Changing the authenticate implementation
  • Updating the user last login time
    • Displaying the last login time on the home page
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Iteration 5: User Access Control
  • Iteration planning
  • Running our existing test suite
  • accessControl filter
  • Role-based access control
    • Configuring the authorization manager
    • Creating the RBAC database tables
    • Creating the RBAC authorization hierarchy
      • Writing a console application command
    • Assigning users to roles
    • Adding RBAC roles to projects
      • Adding RBAC business rules
      • Implementing the new Project AR methods
    • Adding Users To Projects
      • Altering the Project model class
      • Adding the new form model class
      • Adding the new action method to the project controller
      • Adding the new view file to display the form
      • Putting it all together
  • Checking authorization level
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Iteration 6: Adding User Comments
  • Iteration planning
  • Creating the model
  • Creating the Comment CRUD
  • Altering the scaffolding to meet requirements
    • Adding a comment
    • Displaying the form
  • Creating a recent comments widget
    • Introducing CWidget
      • More on relational AR queries in Yii
      • Completing the test
      • Creating the widget
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Iteration 7: Adding an RSS Web Feed
  • Iteration planning
  • A little background: Content Syndication, RSS, and Zend Framework
  • Installing Zend Framework
  • Using Zend_Feed
  • Creating user friendly URLs
    • Using the URL manager
      • Configuring routing rules
      • Removing the entry script from the URL
  • Adding the feed links
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Iteration 8: Making it Pretty - Design, Layout, Themes, and Internationalization(i18n)
  • Iteration planning
  • Designing with layouts
    • Specifying a layout
    • Applying and using a layout
  • Deconstructing the main.php layout file
    • Introducing the Blueprint CSS framework
      • Understanding the Blueprint installation
    • Setting the page title
    • Defining a page header
    • Displaying menu navigation items
    • Creating a breadcrumb navigation
    • Specifying the content being decorated by the layout
    • Defining the footer
  • Nesting the layouts
  • Creating themes
    • Building themes in Yii
    • Creating a Yii theme
    • Configuring the application to use a theme
  • Translating the site to other languages
    • Defining locale and language
    • Performing language translation
      • Performing message translation
      • Performing file translation
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: Iteration 9: Modules - Adding Administration
  • Iteration planning
  • Modules
    • Creating a module
    • Using a module
    • Theming a module
      • Applying a theme
  • Restricting admin access
  • Adding a system-wide message
    • Creating the database table
    • Creating our model and CRUD scaffolding
    • Adding a link to our new functionality
    • Displaying the message to users
      • Importing the new model class for application-wide access
      • Selecting the most recently updated message
      • Adding a little design tweak
  • Summary

• Chapter 13: Iteration 10: Production Readiness
  • Iteration planning
  • Logging
    • Message logging
    • Categories and levels
    • Adding a login message log
    • Message routing
  • Handling errors
    • Displaying errors
  • Caching
    • Configuring for cache
    • Using a file-based cache
    • Cache dependencies
    • Fragment caching
      • Declaring fragment caching options
      • Using fragment cache
    • Page caching
  • General performance tuning tips
    • Using APC
    • Disabling debug mode
    • Using yiilite.php
    • Using caching techniques
    • Enabling schema caching
  • Summary

• Index