CO-921 : The Yii framework for PHP developers
- 18Training hours
- 6Lectures
- 3Assistant hours
- 450Egyptian pounds
- 13Students maximum
What is Yii ?
Yii is short for "Yes it is", an open-source framework running on PHP, for developing dynamic, high-performance web applications in the least possible time and effort, by using the ready-made libraries and components bundled inside the framework.
Those libraries carry a great many ready-made routines covering every part of a project: connecting to and working with databases, URL rewriting, libraries for JavaScript work, and more. Between them they let you finish a long list of complicated jobs in a short time and without the effort.
What are the advantages of working with Yii ?
- It saves the programmer time while developing any application.
- Writing the code is easier and more flexible, because the libraries and ready-made routines are already there
- The site's files, folders and code are organised beautifully, which makes a project far easier to pick back up after time away from it.
- It works on OOP principles.
How Yii works
Yii is built on the MVC idea (Models - Views – Controllers)
and each part has its own job :
- Models
The layer responsible for dealing with the databases - Views
The layer that forms the application's interface, the visible part shown to the user
and it usually holds the design code - Controllers
This layer is the link joining the data layer (Models) to the interface layer (Views)
What the programme covers
Exploring Yii
- Introduction to the Course
- What Is a Framework?
- What Is an MVC?
- MVC Request Routing
- Introducing Yii
Getting Started with Yii
- Getting Started with Yii
- Generating a Web Application with Yii
- Configuring Yii
- Developing a Photo Gallery Application
- Using Gii to Generate the CRUD Application
Starting Development (Using our IDE)
- Introducing the CActiveRecord Object
- Forms and the CHtml Component
- Using Third-party Extensions to Enhance Functionality
- Simplifying Database Queries Using Yii's ActiveRecord Class
- Creating and Updating Our Album Model
- Embedding a Subform
Testing Your Application
- Testing Our Application
- Setting Up Our Test Environment
- Creating a Unit Test to Automate the Testing of Common Tasks
- Using Fixtures
- Functional Testing with Selenium Server
The Photo Application
- Installing Yii Extensions
- Preparing the Forms and Inserting the Uploader Widget
- Building a Controller Action to Upload and Crunch Our Images
- Understanding the GridView and Customizing It's Layout
- Adding Finishing Touches to the Photo Album Management Forms
Themes, Layout, and User Access
- Theming an Application
- Modifying the Default System Layout to Modify the Menus
- User Authentication – The Default Yii Model
- Extending the Yii User Model to Suit Our Application
- Understanding the Yii Security Model
Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling in Yii
- Using Xdebug to Debug Your Applications in Real Time
- Configuring Yii to Use Different Log Routes
- Profiling SQL queries
- Installing and Using the Yii Debug Toolbar Extension
- Exception Handling in Yii Using the CException and CHttpException classes
Customizing our Album Interface
- Including Tags
- Including Tags
- Using Model Behaviors
- Using Lookups and Dropdown-List Boxes
- Adding the Comment Add and Display Forms
- Deploying Our Photo Application
What you need first
- A good knowledge of the web design languages HTML/CSS
- A full grasp of the fundamentals of PHP (a placement test may be set before your registration is accepted - free of charge - )
Meet the trainers on this course
Trainer and web developer
Hamada works as a professional web developer across a number of platforms, PHP and MS ASP.NET among them, and is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer for web applications, which he took after his computer science degree. He has spent years building web applications for the commercial market, alongside teaching a long list of training courses in the field.
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Web application developer, PHP
Marwa teaches web programming with PHP and MySQL databases. She has more than three years of commercial and training experience behind her, and certifications from Microsoft and CIW.
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Head of the academy, and PHP application developer
Mostafa began his working life five years ago in web design and web programming, in languages such as HTML, CSS and PHP, before moving across into training. He chose to pursue that ambition independently, and founded Seven Dash Training Academy in early 2010. He has taught web programming languages at Seven Dash ever since, and later founded a second company specialising in web design and development, named "Dominato", bringing together commercial experience and teaching skill.
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What else comes with this course
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Sit the course again, free -
Drinks cafeteria -
A room worth sitting in -
Support that continues -
Private assistant hours
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