Yii Project Blueprints -- Table of Contents -- Yii Project Blueprints -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. A Task-management Application -- Describing the project -- Tasks -- Projects -- Users -- The database -- The tasks table -- The projects table -- Users -- Choosing a database technology -- The tasks table -- The projects table -- The database overview -- Initializing the project -- Creating the database with migrations -- Creating models with Gii -- Enhancing the models -- Updating the default validation rules -- Defined relations -- Removing tasks when a project is deleted -- Retrieving the project metadata -- Automatically setting the created and updated time -- Creating the presentation layer -- Managing projects -- Creating the layout -- Creating the project index action -- Changing a project's completion state -- Deleting projects -- Creating and updating projects -- Viewing tasks -- Managing tasks -- Preventing unauthorized access to our application -- Requiring authentication with filters and access rules -- Creating a controller for the authentication -- Creating a login layout -- Creating a login view -- Identifying our users with the UserIdentity CUserIdentity class -- Creating the login model -- Finishing touches -- Disabling Gii -- Defining a default route -- Adding extra routes -- Summary -- 2. Discovering What's Nearby -- Describing the project -- Searching nearby locations -- Showing locations -- Storing locations.

Importing locations -- Designing the database -- Locations -- Initializing the project -- Creating the configuration file -- Retrieving the sample data -- Creating the database -- Creating the locations model -- Importing the data feed -- Google APIs -- Enabling Google APIs -- Generating an API key -- Storing the API key -- Creating the presentation layer -- Interacting with the Google Maps JavaScript API -- Searching nearby locations -- Selecting a location -- Showing locations on a map -- Optimizing the performance with caching -- Summary -- 3. Scheduled Reminders -- Prerequisites -- Describing the project -- Users -- Events -- Reminders -- The task runner -- Initializing the project -- Create a MySQL user and database -- Creating a Yii configuration file -- Creating a parameters configuration file -- Adding Composer dependencies -- Creating the database -- The users migration -- The reminders and events migration -- Creating models -- Model behaviors -- The Users model -- Bcrypt password hashing -- The Reminders model -- The Events model -- Searching for events and displaying them -- Custom routing for dates -- Creating the controller for events -- Creating the reminders controller -- Creating the layout -- Creating the main view -- Creating the item view -- Creating the event list view -- Creating and saving events -- Creating the controller to manage users -- Creating users -- Deleting users -- Changing the user's password -- Authenticating with Bcrypt -- Requiring authentication -- Sending e-mail reminders -- Summary -- 4. Developing an Issue-tracking Application -- Prerequisites -- Describing the project -- Users -- Roles -- Issues -- Statuses -- Updates -- Receiving e-mails -- Initializing the project -- Managing users -- Roles and authentication -- Listing users -- Deleting users -- Creating and updating users.

Viewing users and associated issues -- Implementing the issue-management component -- The Issues model -- The Issues Update model -- Showing issues that belong to the user -- Searching for issues -- Creating issues -- Viewing and updating issues -- E-mail views -- Testing our application -- Handling inbound e-mail parsing -- Sending e-mails to SendGrid -- Adjusting SendGrid Parse settings -- Creating and updating issues over e-mail -- Summary -- 5. Creating a Microblogging Platform -- Prerequisites -- Describing the project -- Users -- Followers -- Likes -- Shares -- Initializing the project -- Making a better Yii bootstrap file -- Enabling users to manage their information -- Upgrading our UserIdentity class -- Defining user relations -- Determining whether a user is following another user -- Implementing a secure registration process -- Handling forgotten passwords -- Resetting a forgotten password -- Enabling users to manage their details -- Verifying a new e-mail address -- Viewing a timeline of shares -- Retrieving shares -- Sharing new content -- Resharing -- Liking and unliking shares -- Viewing shares -- Searching for shares -- Sharing on Twitter with HybridAuth -- Setting up a Twitter application -- Configuring HybridAuth -- Implementing HybridAuth social sign-on and sharing -- Summary -- 6. Building a Content Management System -- Prerequisites -- Describing the project -- Users -- Content -- Categories -- Search engine optimizations -- Initializing the project -- Exploring the skeleton project -- Extending models from a common class -- Creating a custom validator for slugs -- View management with themes -- Truly dynamic routing -- Telling Yii to use our custom UrlManager -- Displaying and managing content -- Rendering the sitemap -- Displaying a list view of content -- Displaying content by ID -- Adding comments to our CMS with Disqus.

Searching for content -- Managing content -- Viewing and managing categories -- Viewing entries in a category -- Viewing an RSS feed for categories -- Managing categories -- Social authentication with HybridAuth -- Validating remote identities -- Remote registrations -- Linking a social identity to an existing account -- Authenticating with a social identity -- Creating a Yii CWebUser object from a remote identity -- Putting it all together -- Exploring other HybridAuth providers -- Summary -- 7. Creating a Management Module for the CMS -- Prerequisites -- What are modules? -- Describing the project -- Initializing the module -- Routing with a module -- Moving the management functionality into the module -- Adding file upload capabilities -- Deploying modules -- Initializing the project -- Creating the module -- Registering the module with Yii -- Adding custom routes to a module -- Creating the controllers -- Migrating the functionality to the module -- Migrating content management -- Migrating categories -- Implementing user management -- Uploading files -- Creating the File class -- Creating the FileUploader class -- Creating the FileUpload class -- Creating the controller for the file manager -- Strategies for deploying our application -- Deploying as the application -- Deploying as a submodule -- Deploying as a Composer dependency -- Summary -- 8. Building an API for the CMS -- Prerequisites -- Describing the project -- Configuring the module -- Extending Yii to render JSON or XML in a RESTful way -- Handling data input -- Authenticating users to the API -- Handling API exceptions -- Handling data responses -- Implementing actions -- Initializing the project -- Extending Yii to return data -- Rendering data -- Calling actions in a RESTful way -- Authenticating users -- Overloading CAccessControlFilter -- Processing the incoming data.

Handling errors -- Exception handling -- Custom error handling -- Testing whether everything works -- Authenticating users -- Testing the authentication -- Sending authenticated requests -- Implementing CRUD actions -- Deleting users -- Retrieving users -- Creating and updating users -- Implementing other controller actions from the main application -- Implementing categories and content API controllers -- Documenting our API -- Summary -- Index.