Yii 2 Advanced Application Template

NOTE Yii 2 and the relevant applications and extensions are still under heavy development. We may make significant changes without prior notices. Please do not use them for production. Please consider using Yii v1.1 if you have a project to be deployed for production soon.

Thank you for using Yii 2 Advanced Application Template - an application template that works out-of-box and can be easily customized to fit for your needs.

Yii 2 Advanced Application Template is best suitable for large projects requiring frontend and backstage separation, deployment in different environments, configuration nesting etc.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

common
    config/             contains shared configurations
    models/             contains model classes used in both backstage and frontend
console
    config/             contains console configurations
    controllers/        contains console controllers (commands)
    migrations/         contains database migrations
    models/             contains console-specific model classes
    runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
backstage
    assets/             contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/             contains backstage configurations
    controllers/        contains Web controller classes
    models/             contains backstage-specific model classes
    runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
    views/              contains view files for the Web application
    www/                contains the entry script and Web resources
frontend
    assets/             contains application assets such as JavaScript and CSS
    config/             contains frontend configurations
    controllers/        contains Web controller classes
    models/             contains frontend-specific model classes
    runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
    views/              contains view files for the Web application
    www/                contains the entry script and Web resources
vendor/                 contains dependent 3rd-party packages
environments/                contains environment-based overrides

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by Yii is that your Web server supports PHP 5.3.?.

INSTALLATION

Install via Composer

If you do not have Composer, you may download it from http://getcomposer.org/ or run the following command on Linux/Unix/MacOS:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

You can then install the Bootstrap Application using the following command:

php composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced yii-advanced

Now you should be able to access:

• the frontend using the URL http://localhost/yii-advanced/frontend/www/
• the backstage using the URL http://localhost/yii-advanced/backstage/www/

assuming yii-advanced is directly under the document root of your Web server.

Install from an Archive File

This is not currently available. We will provide it when Yii 2 is formally released.

GETTING STARTED

After template application and its dependencies are downloaded you need to initialize it and set some config values to match your application requirements.

1. Execute install command selecting dev as environment.
2. Set id value in console/config/main.php, frontend/config/main.php, backstage/config/main.php.
3. Create new database. It is assumed that MySQL InnoDB is used. If not, adjust console/migrations/m130524_201442_init.php.
4. In common/config/params.php set your database details in components.db values.