Agile web application development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 / Jeffery Winesett.

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Meet Yii -- Yii is easy -- Yii is efficient -- Yii is extensible -- MVC architecture -- The model -- The view -- The controller -- Stitching these together: Yii request routing -- Blog posting example -- Object-relational mapping and Active Record -- Active Record -- The view and controller -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Getting Started -- Installing Yii -- Installing a database -- Creating a new application -- Hello, World! -- Creating the controller -- One final step -- Reviewing our request routing -- Adding dynamic content -- Adding the date and time -- Adding the date and time, a better approach -- Have you been paying attention? -- Linking pages together -- Linking to a new page -- Getting a little help from Yii CHtml -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The TrackStar Application -- Introducing TrackStar -- Creating user stories -- Users -- Projects -- Issues -- Navigation and page flow -- Defining a data scheme -- Defining our development methodology -- Automated software testing -- Unit and functional testing -- Benefits of testing -- Test-driven development -- Testing in Yii -- Unit tests -- Functional tests -- Hello TDD! -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Iteration 1 -- Iteration planning -- Creating the new application -- Connecting to the database -- Testing the connection -- Adding a db connection as an application component -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Iteration 2 -- Iteration planning -- Running our test suite -- Creating the project table -- Naming conventions -- Creating the AR model class -- Configuring Gii -- Using Gii to create our Project AR class -- Testing out our newly generated code -- Was all that testing really necessary? -- Enabling CRUD operations for users -- Creating CRUD scaffolding for projects -- Creating a new project -- Reading the project -- Updating and deleting projects -- Managing projects in admin mode -- More on testing8212;fixtures -- Configuring the fixture manager -- Creating a fixture -- Configuring this fixture for use -- Specifying a test database -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Iteration 3 -- Iteration planning -- Running the test suite -- Designing the schema -- Defining some relationships -- Building the database and the relationships -- Creating the Active Record model classes -- Creating the issue model class -- Creating the User model class -- Creating the Issue CRUD operations -- Using the Issue CRUD operations -- Creating a new Issue -- Adding the types drop-down menu -- Getting the test in the "Red" -- Moving From "Red" To "Green" -- Moving Back To "Red" -- Getting back to "Green" once again -- Adding the issue type dropdown -- Adding the status dropdown: Do it yourself -- Fixing the owner and requester fields -- Enforcing a project context -- Implementing a filter -- Adding a filter -- Specifying the filtered actions -- Adding some filter logic -- Adding the project id -- Altering the project details page -- Removing the project input form field -- R.

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Annotation This is a step-by-step tutorial for developing web applications using Yii. This book follows the test-first, incremental, and iterative approach to software development while developing a project task management application called "TrackStar." If you are a PHP programmer with knowledge of object oriented programming and want to rapidly develop modern, sophisticated web applications, then this book is for you. No prior knowledge of Yii is required to read this book.

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