{"id":18707,"date":"2015-12-06T05:01:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=18707"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T09:14:04","slug":"yii-mvc-php-framework-hello-world-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/yii-mvc-php-framework-hello-world-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Yii MVC PHP Framework Hello World Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yii<\/a>

Yii MVC PHP Framework Hello World Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Today’s tutorial is a Hello World tutorial for Yii<\/a>, to quote Wikipedia<\/a> …<\/p>\n

\nYii is an open source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework. Yii is pronounced as “Yee” or [ji:] and in Chinese it means “simple and evolutionary” and it can be acronym for “Yes It Is!”.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The MVC<\/a> stands for Model View Controller … (from Wikipedia again) …<\/p>\n

\nModel\u2013view\u2013controller (MVC) is a software architectural pattern mostly for implementing user interfaces.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It makes a fair bit of difference what version you talk about with Yii, and we are talking about Yii 2 today.<\/p>\n

You can get up and going with a Hello World level of Yii usage really quickly (especially with the great advice of How to Program with Yii2: Getting Started – Envato Tuts+ Code Tutorial<\/a> … thanks), and we can say, basically that the major steps for us, integrating it with MAMP<\/a> (Mac Apache local web server) and a Linux operating system involved …<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. installing composer<\/a>, a tool for dependency management in PHP, via …
    \n
    \ncurl -sS https:\/\/getcomposer.org\/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=\/usr\/bin
    \ncomposer global require \"fxp\/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1\"
    \ncomposer require yiisoft\/yii2
    \nsudo ln -s \/usr\/bin\/composer.phar \/usr\/bin\/composer<\/code>
    \n…     \u2139<\/a> … that can also be found on the GitHub<\/a> source repository<\/li>\n
  2. composer setup specific to Hello World project …
    \n
    \ncd ~\/Sites
    \ncomposer global require \"fxp\/composer-asset-plugin:1.0.0-beta2\"
    \ncomposer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft\/yii2-app-basic hello<\/code>
    \n…     \u2139<\/a> … in addition we found that we needed to …
    \n
    \nmkdir ~\/Sites\/hello\/vendor\/bower\/bootstrap
    \nmkdir ~\/Sites\/hello\/vendor\/bower\/bootstrap\/dist
    \nmkdir ~\/Sites\/hello\/vendor\/bower\/jquery
    \nmkdir ~\/Sites\/hello\/vendor\/bower\/jquery\/dist<\/code>
    \n …     \u2139<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. create software to help out MAMP via …
    \n
    \ncd \/Applications\/MAMP\/htdocs
    \nln -s ~\/Sites\/hello\/ \/Applications\/MAMP\/htdocs\/hello<\/code>
    \n …     \u2139<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. point your web browser at …
    \nhttp:\/\/localhost:8888\/hello\/web<\/code> …     \u2139<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can do great organizational and fast and guaranteed and consistent PHP web work using Yii Framework. Just imagine a CRUD<\/a> idea you have, and Yii could be a great option for you. Here’s a slideshow<\/a> of highlights of today’s Hello World website create using the Yii 2 MVC PHP framework.<\/p>\n

    If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n