Running Both WordPress and Yii2

Running Yii2 and WordPress on the Same Server A lot of people around the web seem rightfully confused about running both WordPress and Yii2 together. In other words, you’re running a Yii server with your application on yourdomain.com but wish to run WordPress at yourdomain.com/blog! How do you do it? After I launched Meeting Planner, […]

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Building Your Startup With PHP: Geolocation and Google Places

Part three of my Building Your Startup series is available now at Tuts+, its focus is HTML5 Geolocation, Google Places and Google Maps. In this part, we’re going to build some of the underlying infrastructure for the concept of Places where people can schedule meetings. We’ll cover the basics of working with Places, building on our […]

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Programming With Yii2: Exploring MVC, Forms and Layouts

As my Programming With Yii2 series continues at Tuts+, part two explores MVC, Forms and Layouts: “This tutorial will cover some of Yii’s more basic concepts related to its implementation of the MVC framework: Models, Views and Controllers. We’ll also explore layouts and customization of navigation menus and Bootstrap elements. For these examples, we’ll imagine we’re building a […]

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Programming With Yii2: Getting Started

This tutorial will walk you through installing Yii 2.0, setting up your local development environment, building a simple Hello World application, setting up your remote production environment for hosting and deploying your code from a GitHub repository. It’s the perfect way to get started with Yii2. It’s also only the first installment of many tutorials in […]

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Building Your Startup With PHP: Getting Started

This is the first installment of a series geared towards walking you through the stages of transforming a cool business concept into an actual startup. If you’re an idea person curious about the entrepreneurial process, this series is for you. I’ll draw from my experience as a self-starting, serial entrepreneur. I began my career at Microsoft launching […]

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