Yii 2 Basic Project Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for rapidly creating small projects.
The template contains the basic features including user login/logout and a contact page. It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your application.
assets/ contains assets definition
commands/ contains console commands (controllers)
config/ contains application configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
mail/ contains view files for e-mails
models/ contains model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
tests/ contains various tests for the basic application
vendor/ contains dependent 3rd-party packages
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
The minimum requirement by this project template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.
If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.
You can then install this project template using the following command:
php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.2.0"
php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL, assuming basic
is the directory
directly under the Web root.
http://localhost/basic/web/
Extract the archive file downloaded from yiiframework.com to
a directory named basic
that is directly under the Web root.
Set cookie validation key in config/web.php
file to some random secret string:
'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => '<secret random string goes here>',
],
You can then access the application through the following URL:
http://localhost/basic/web/
Edit the file config/db.php
with real data, for example:
return [
'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2basic',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '1234',
'charset' => 'utf8',
];
NOTES:
- Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.
- Check and edit the other files in the
config/
directory to customize your application as required. - Refer to the README in the
tests
directory for information specific to basic application tests.
Tests are located in tests
directory. They are developed with Codeception PHP Testing Framework.
By default there are 3 test suites:
unit
functional
acceptance
Tests can be executed by running
composer exec codecept run
The command above will execute unit and functional tests. Unit tests are testing the system components, while functional tests are for testing user interaction. Acceptance tests are disabled by default as they require additional setup since they perform testing in real browser.
To execute acceptance tests do the following:
-
Rename
tests/acceptance.suite.yml.example
totests/acceptance.suite.yml
to enable suite configuration -
Replace
codeception/base
package incomposer.json
withcodeception/codeception
to install full featured version of Codeception -
Update dependencies with Composer
composer update
-
Download Selenium Server and launch it:
java -jar ~/selenium-server-standalone-x.xx.x.jar
-
(Optional) Create
yii2_basic_tests
database and update it by applying migrations if you have them.tests/bin/yii migrate
The database configuration can be found at
config/test_db.php
. -
Start web server:
tests/bin/yii serve
-
Now you can run all available tests
# run all available tests composer exec codecept run # run acceptance tests composer exec codecept run acceptance # run only unit and functional tests composer exec codecept run unit,functional
By default, code coverage is disabled in codeception.yml
configuration file, you should uncomment needed rows to be able
to collect code coverage. You can run your tests and collect coverage with the following command:
#collect coverage for all tests
composer exec codecept run -- --coverage-html --coverage-xml
#collect coverage only for unit tests
composer exec codecept run unit -- --coverage-html --coverage-xml
#collect coverage for unit and functional tests
composer exec codecept run functional,unit -- --coverage-html --coverage-xml
You can see code coverage output under the tests/_output
directory.
The most straightforward way to get started with Yii2 is to use the basic application template provided by the Yii2 team. This template is also available through the Composer tool.
Step 1 − Find a suitable directory in your hard drive and download the Composer PHAR (PHP archive) via the following command.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Step 2 − Then move this archive to the bin directory.
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Step 3 − With the Composer installed, you can install Yii2 basic application template. Run these commands.
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1" composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic helloworld
The first command installs the composer asset plugin, which manages npm and bower dependencies. The second command installs Yii2 basic application template in a directory called helloworld.
Step 4 − Now open the helloworld directory and launch the web server built into PHP.
php -S localhost:8080 -t web
Step 5 − Then open http://localhost:8080 in your browser. You can see the welcome page.
SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0; SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='TRADITIONAL,ALLOW_INVALID_DATES';
-- Schema university
CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS university2
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 ;
USE university2
;
-- Table university
.students
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS university2
.students
(
idstudents
INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name
VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
address
VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
phone
VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (idstudents
))
ENGINE = InnoDB;
-- Table university
.courses
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS university2
.courses
(
idcourses
INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
title
VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
start_date
TIMESTAMP NUll DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
end_date
TIMESTAMP NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (idcourses
))
ENGINE = InnoDB;
-- Table university
.users
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS university2
.users
(
idusers
INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
full_name
VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
email
VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
auth_key
VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
username
VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
password
VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL,
created_date
TIMESTAMP NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (idusers
))
ENGINE = InnoDB;
-- Table university
.students_has_courses
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS university2
.students_has_courses
(
students_idstudents
INT NOT NULL,
courses_idcourses
INT NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (students_idstudents
, courses_idcourses
),
INDEX fk_students_has_courses_courses1_idx
(courses_idcourses
ASC),
INDEX fk_students_has_courses_students_idx
(students_idstudents
ASC),
CONSTRAINT fk_students_has_courses_students
FOREIGN KEY (students_idstudents
)
REFERENCES university2
.students
(idstudents
)
ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE CASCADE,
CONSTRAINT fk_students_has_courses_courses1
FOREIGN KEY (courses_idcourses
)
REFERENCES university2
.courses
(idcourses
)
ON DELETE CASCADE
ON UPDATE CASCADE)
ENGINE = InnoDB;
SET SQL_MODE=@OLD_SQL_MODE; SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS; SET UNIQUE_CHECKS=@OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS;
INSERT INTO courses
(idcourses
, title
) VALUES
(1, 'Math'),
(2, 'Programming'),
(3, 'Training'),
(4, 'English'),
(5, 'Tech'),
(6, 'Test Automation'),
(7, 'QA'),
(8, 'Web technology'),
(9, 'Java'),
(10, 'PHP'),
(11, 'Mobile development');
INSERT INTO students
(idstudents
, name
, address
, phone
) VALUES
(1, 'Ivan Ivanov', 'AAAA1', '256789004'),
(2, 'Igor Petrov', 'BBBB8', '123456789'),
(3, 'Mary Smirnova', 'ZZZZ1', '392456700'),
(4, 'Anna Johnson', 'PPPP9', '948329040');
INSERT INTO students_has_courses
(students_idstudents
, courses_idcourses
) VALUES
(1, 1),
(1, 2),
(1, 3),
(1, 4),
(1, 5),
(1, 6),
(1, 7),
(1, 8),
(1, 9),
(1, 10),
(1, 11),
(2, 1),
(2, 2),
(2, 3),
(3, 1),
(3, 2),
(3, 3),
(4, 1),
(4, 2);