Agile web application development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 [electronic resource] / Jeffery Winesett.

ISBN:

9781847199591

Title:

Author:

Winesett, Jeffrey.

Personal Author:

Winesett, Jeffrey.

Publication Information:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 348 pages) : color illustrations

General Note:

Includes index.

Fast-track your web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP framework.

"Community experience distilled"--Cover.

Contents:

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- 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 -- Functional tests -- Hello TDD! -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Iteration 1 -- Iteration planning -- Creating the new application -- Connecting to the database -- Testing the connection -- Adding a db connection as an application component -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Iteration 2 -- 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 -- Was all that testing really necessary? -- Enabling CRUD operations for users -- Creating CRUD scaffolding for projects -- Creating a new project -- Reading the project -- Updating and deleting projects -- Managing projects in admin mode -- More on testing8212;fixtures -- Configuring the fixture manager -- Creating a fixture -- Configuring this fixture for use -- Specifying a test database -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Iteration 3 -- 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 dropdown: 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 -- R.

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Subject Term:

PHP (Computer program language)

Application software -- Development.

Web sites -- Design.

Web site development.

Agile software development.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

Publication Information:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2010.

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For PHP developers who know object-oriented programming, this book is the fast track to learning the Yii framework. It takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete real-world application ,Äì teaching by practice rather than theory.

Key Features A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework Take a test-driven design (TDD) approach to software development utilizing the Yii testing framework Write less code by using Yii''s application generation and scaffolding tools Enhance your application by adding Web feeds, adapting it to multiple languages, and by utilizing themes to provide beautiful skins and design flexibility Book Description This book is a step by step tutorial in developing a real-world application using the incremental and iterative approach to software development. You learn about agile software development by leaning on the agile nature of the Yii application development framework. You touch on each aspect of the software development lifecycle by building a project task management application from concept through production deployment.After a brief, general introduction to the Yii framework and outlining the software development approach taken throughout the book, the chapters break down in the same way as software development iterations do in real-world projects. After the 1st iteration, you will have a working and tested application with a valid, tested connection to a database.In the 2nd and 3rd iterations, we flesh out our main database entities and domain object model and become familiar with Yii''s object-relational-mapping (ORM) layer, Active Record. We also learn how to lean on Yii''s auto-generation tools to automatically build our create/read/update/delete (CRUD) functionality against our newly created model. These iterations also focus on how Yii''s form validation and submission model works. By the end of the third iteration you will have a working application that allows you to mange projects and issues (tasks) within those projects.The 4th and 5th iterations are dedicated to user management. We learn about the built-in authentication model within Yii to assist in application login and logout functionality. We then dive into the authorization model, first taking advantage of a Yii''s simple access control model, then implementing the more sophisticated role-based access control (RBAC) framework that Yii provides.By the end of the 5th iteration, all of the basics of a task management application are in place. The next several iterations are focused on the nice-to-haves. We add user comment functionality, introducing a reusable content portlet architecture approach in the process. We add in an RSS Web feed and demonstrate how easy it is to integrate other third-party tools within a Yii application. We take advantage of Yii''s theming structure to help streamline and design the application, and then introduce Yii''s internationalization (I18N) features so the application can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes.Finally, we turn our focus to production deployment. We introduce ways to optimize performance and security to prepare the application for a real-world production environment. What you will learn Take a "test first" approach to software development using the Yii testing framework Auto-generate skeleton web applications as well as CRUD scaffolding for the domain object model using the built-in command-line interface Create user-based applications with Yii s authentication model Enhance your user-based application to control a user s access to feature functionality Write an administrative console application to extend the features provided by Yii s powerful command-line tools Integrate other frameworks and libraries into a Yii application to further extend its feature set Spend less time managing application configuration by taking advantage of Yii s sensible defaults and conventions. Learn how easy it is to implement a multi-user application by utilizing Yii s authentication and role-based authorization models Update your code to properly mange the user s last login time and store it in the database Achieve pre- and post-action method request processing using controller filters Tap into the CActiveRecord validation workflow to allow for pre- and post-validation processing of your model data Greatly increase re-use, consistency, and ease of maintenance of the application by developing small content blocks called portlets Make your application accessible to the world with internationalization (l18N) features and enhance the looks of your application using the Yii theming model Who this book is for

If you are a PHP programmer with knowledge of object oriented programming and want to rapidly develop modern, sophisticated web applications, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Yii is required to read this book.