Yii2 Application Development Solutions–Volume 2

What you'll learn
Implement your own Yii extension and make your extension reusable and useful for the Community
Configure Yii to gain extra performance
Learn best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads
Learn how to show everyone except the developer a maintenance message.
Add an advanced configuration system to the yii2-app-basic application template
Use the best technologies for testing, such as Codeception, PhpUnit, Atoum, and Behat.
Write simple tests and avoid regression errors in your application.
Review logging, analyze exception stack traces, and implement your own error handler.
Requirements
The sections in this video are independent and offer a practical approach to Yii development. All videos are explained with step-by-step code examples and real-world business logic.
Description
Yii is an optimal, high-performance PHP framework for developing Web 2.0 applications. It provides fast, secure, and professional features to create robust projects; however, this rapid development requires the ability to organize common tasks collectively to build a complete application. Being extremely performance-optimized, Yii is the perfect choice for projects of any size. It comes packaged with tools to help test and debug your application and has clear and comprehensive documentation.
This video course is a collection of Yii2 videos. Each video is represented as a full and independent item, showcasing solutions from real web applications. So you can easily reproduce them in your environment and learn Yii2 rapidly and painlessly.
In this video, you will get started by configuring your Yii2 application. After that, we will focus on how to make our extension as efficient as possible. Then we will cover some best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads. Moving ahead, we will provide various tips, which are especially useful in application deployment and when developing an application in a team. Later, we will introduce the best technologies for testing and we will see how to write simple tests and avoid regression errors in our application.
Finally, we conclude this course by discussing review logging, analyzing the exception stack trace, and implementing our own error handler.
About the Authors
Andrew Bogdanovis a seasoned web developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than six years of experience in industrial development. Since 2010, he has been interested in the Yii and MVC frameworks. He has taken part in projects written in Yii, such as a work aggregator for a UK company, high-load projects, real-estate projects, and the development of private projects for the government.
He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP and MySQL, including Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP, and so on. Also, he is adroit at integrating third-party APIs such as Payment gateways (PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). He is very good in slicing and frontend, so he can provide full information about the Yii framework.
He is also well-versed in PHP/MYSQL, Yii 1.x.x, Yii 2.x.x, Ajax, Jquery, MVC frameworks, Python, LAMP, HTML/CSS, Mercurial, Git, AngularJS, and adaptive markup.
In his free time, he likes to visit and talk with new people and discuss web development problems. He is currently working with professionals.
Dmitry Eliseev has been a web developer since 2008 and specializes in server-side programming on the PHP and PHP frameworks.
Dmitry is interested in developmental best practices, software architectures, object-oriented programming, and other approaches.
He is an author and a presenter of practical courses about the principles and best practices of object-oriented programming and the use of version control systems. Also, he is an author of webinars, the Yii2 Framework, and common developmental subjects. He practices teaching and counseling by development on frameworks and using the principles of software design and improvements in common code quality. This is his first book.
Alexander Makarov is an experienced engineer from Russia and has been a Yii framework core team member since 2010. Before joining the Yii core team, he participated in the growth of the CodeIgniter community in Russia. In 2009, he finished the Russian translation of the framework documentation and created the Russian community website. In 2012, he released the Russian version of the book along with Russian community members. In the same year, he was a technical reviewer for three more books
The Yii Book: Developing Web Applications Using the Yii PHP Framework, Larry Ullman Web Application Development with Yii and PHP, Jeff Winesett Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot, Lauren O'Meara, and James Hamilton
In his free time, Alexander speaks at conferences, and enjoys movies, music, traveling, photography, and languages. He currently resides in Voronezh, Russia with his beloved wife and daughter.
Overview
Section 1: Configuring Your Yii2 Application
Lecture 1 The Course Overview
Lecture 2 ElasticSearch Engine Adapter
Lecture 3 Gii Code Generator
Lecture 4 PJax jQuery Plugin
Lecture 5 Redis Database Driver
Section 2: Extending Yii
Lecture 6 Creating Helpers
Lecture 7 Creating Model Behaviors
Lecture 8 Creating Components
Lecture 9 Creating Reusable Controller Actions
Lecture 10 Creating Reusable Controllers
Lecture 11 Creating a Widget
Lecture 12 Creating CLI Commands
Lecture 13 Creating Filters
Lecture 14 Creating Modules
Lecture 15 Creating a Custom View Renderer
Lecture 16 Creating a Multilanguage Application
Lecture 17 Making Extensions Distribution-Ready
Section 3: Performance Tuning
Lecture 18 Following Best Practices
Lecture 19 Speeding Up Session Handling
Lecture 20 Using Cache Dependencies and Chains
Lecture 21 Profiling an Application with Yii
Lecture 22 Leveraging HTTP Caching
Lecture 23 Combining and Minimizing Assets
Lecture 24 Running Yii2 on HHVM
Section 4: Deployment
Lecture 25 Changing the Yii Directory Layout
Lecture 26 Moving an Application Webroot
Lecture 27 Changing an Advanced Application Template
Lecture 28 Moving Configuration Parts into Separate Files
Lecture 29 Using Multiple Configurations to Simplify the Deployment
Lecture 30 Implementing and Executing Cron Jobs
Lecture 31 Maintenance Mode
Lecture 32 Deployment Tools
Section 5: Testing
Lecture 33 Testing Application with Codeception
Lecture 34 Unit Testing with PHPUnit
Lecture 35 Unit Testing with Atoum
Lecture 36 Unit Testing with Behat
Section 6: Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling
Lecture 37 Using Different Log Routes
Lecture 38 Analyzing the Yii Error Stack Trace
Lecture 39 Logging and Using the Context Information
Lecture 40 Displaying Custom Errors
Lecture 41 Custom Panel for Debug Extension
This video is targeted at developers with a good knowledge of the PHP 5 and MVC frameworks, and those who have tried to develop applications using the Yii 1.x.x version. If you have still not tried Yii2, then this video is definitely for you!

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