Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5 -- Table of Contents -- Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book cover -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 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 -- 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 -- Moving the data creation to the controller -- Have you been paying attention? -- Linking pages together -- Linking to a new page -- Getting a little help from Yii CHtml -- Summary -- 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 -- Unit tests -- Functional tests -- Benefits of testing -- Test-driven development -- Testing in Yii -- Unit tests -- Installing PHPUnit -- Functional tests -- Installing Selenium -- Running a quick example -- Hello TDD! -- Summary -- 4. Iteration 1: Creating the Initial TrackStar Application -- Iteration planning -- Creating the new application -- Connecting to the database -- Testing the connection -- Yii and databases.

Adding a db connection as an application component -- Summary -- 5. Iteration 2: Project CRUD -- 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 -- Creating the unit test file -- Testing create -- Testing read -- Testing update and delete -- Was all that testing really necessary? -- Enabling CRUD operations for users -- Creating CRUD scaffolding for projects -- Creating a new project -- Adding a required field to our form -- Reading the project -- Updating and deleting projects -- Managing projects in admin mode -- More on testing-fixtures -- Configuring the fixture manager -- Creating a fixture -- Configuring this fixture for use -- Specifying a test database -- Using fixtures -- Summary -- 6. Iteration 3: Adding Tasks -- 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 drop-down menu: 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 -- Returning back to the owner and requester dropdowns.

Generating the data to populate the drop-down menu -- Adding User and ProjectUserAssignment fixtures -- Making one last change -- Finishing the rest of the CRUD -- Listing the issues -- Altering the ProjectController -- Altering the project view file -- Making some final tweaks -- Getting the status and type text to display -- Adding the text display to the form -- Changing the issue detail view -- Getting the owner and requester names to display -- Using relational AR -- Making some final navigation tweaks -- Summary -- 7. Iteration 4: User Management and Authentication -- Iteration planning -- Running the test suite -- Creating our User CRUD -- Updating our common audit history columns -- Adding a password confirmation field -- Adding password encryption -- Authenticating users using the database -- Introducing the Yii authentication model -- Changing the authenticate implementation -- Extending application user attributes -- Updating the user last login time -- Displaying the last login time on the home page -- Summary -- 8. Iteration 5: User Access Control -- Iteration planning -- Running our existing test suite -- accessControl filter -- Role-based access control -- Configuring the authorization manager -- Creating the RBAC database tables -- Creating the RBAC authorization hierarchy -- Writing a console application command -- Assigning users to roles -- Adding RBAC roles to projects -- Adding RBAC business rules -- Implementing the new Project AR methods -- Adding Users To Projects -- Altering the Project model class -- Adding the new form model class -- Adding the new action method to the project controller -- Adding the new view file to display the form -- Putting it all together -- Checking authorization level -- Summary -- 9. Iteration 6: Adding User Comments -- Iteration planning -- Creating the model -- Creating the Comment CRUD.

Altering the scaffolding to meet requirements -- Adding a comment -- Displaying the form -- Creating a recent comments widget -- Introducing CWidget -- More on relational AR queries in Yii -- Completing the test -- Creating the widget -- Introducing CPortlet -- Adding our widget to another page -- Summary -- 10. Iteration 7: Adding an RSS Web Feed -- Iteration planning -- A little background: Content Syndication, RSS, and Zend Framework -- Installing Zend Framework -- Using Zend_Feed -- Creating user friendly URLs -- Using the URL manager -- Configuring routing rules -- Removing the entry script from the URL -- Adding the feed links -- Summary -- 11. Iteration 8: Making it Pretty - Design, Layout, Themes, and Internationalization(i18n) -- Iteration planning -- Designing with layouts -- Specifying a layout -- Applying and using a layout -- Deconstructing the main.php layout file -- Introducing the Blueprint CSS framework -- Understanding the Blueprint installation -- Setting the page title -- Defining a page header -- Displaying menu navigation items -- Creating a breadcrumb navigation -- Specifying the content being decorated by the layout -- Defining the footer -- Nesting the layouts -- Creating themes -- Building themes in Yii -- Creating a Yii theme -- Configuring the application to use a theme -- Translating the site to other languages -- Defining locale and language -- Performing language translation -- Performing message translation -- Performing file translation -- Summary -- 12. Iteration 9: Modules - Adding Administration -- Iteration planning -- Modules -- Creating a module -- Using a module -- Theming a module -- Applying a theme -- Restricting admin access -- Adding a system-wide message -- Creating the database table -- Creating our model and CRUD scaffolding -- Adding a link to our new functionality -- Displaying the message to users.

Importing the new model class for application-wide access -- Selecting the most recently updated message -- Adding a little design tweak -- Summary -- 13. Iteration 10: Production Readiness -- Iteration planning -- Logging -- Message logging -- Categories and levels -- Adding a login message log -- Message routing -- Handling errors -- Displaying errors -- Caching -- Configuring for cache -- Using a file-based cache -- Cache dependencies -- Fragment caching -- Declaring fragment caching options -- Using fragment cache -- Page caching -- General performance tuning tips -- Using APC -- Disabling debug mode -- Using yiilite.php -- Using caching techniques -- Enabling schema caching -- Summary -- Index.