Krajee Yii Extensions

The folks at Krajee have a wide variety of useful Yii2 plugins. Most of them are based on the JQuery UI kit. Visit the Krajee Yii Extensions Homepage  

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The Yii Framework Forum

The official Yii Framework forum is an extremely useful community to ask questions and get answers. The Yii2 forum topic is a great place to get questions answered for Yii 2.0.

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Yii Developers

Searching for Yii developers? Check out some of these great folks below: Jeff Reifman, Lookahead Consulting Alexander Makarov, Yii Core Team and Stay.com Kartik Visweswaran, maintains the Krajee Web Tips and a bunch of useful Yii2 extensions The 2Amigos Team, maintain a bunch of useful Yii2 extensions Interested in being listed here, please contact us with your professional […]

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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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Introduction to the Yii Framework

What’s Yii? My Introduction to the Yii Framework at Tuts+ is a great entry point to learn about the framework: Writing “Hello World” in PHP is quite easy but building an actual web application becomes complicated quickly. As soon as you want to manage security, write DRY code, or leverage MVC design techniques, PHP seems lacking. In the past I’ve worked with Ruby […]

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Dropdown Menus for Navigation Bar

Yii2 uses short array notation extensively. Once you get used to it, it’s great, but it can take a bit of time to read code blocks with it. When arrays are nested, it can be even more confusing. I found the Bootstrap navigation bar layouts to be hard to read. I also couldn’t easily find […]

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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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The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0

The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0 is the friendliest documentation provided by the Yii team. It describes many areas of the Yii2 Framework and offers many of examples. There’s a static PDF available from when it first released. Here is the outline to the guide: Introduction Getting Started Application Structure Handling Request Key Concepts Working […]

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