Total fresher in PHP frameworks and Yii, I don't understand tutorials

lowe · October 29, 2010, 3:13pm

Thanks for your effort, rackycz.

firizal13 · November 19, 2010, 8:27am

thanks so much im newbie to in YII !! this tutorial help me so much !! THANKs !

temirbek · November 29, 2010, 6:17am

dear rackycz, thanks a lot.

about your 2nd update, the link to video doesn’t work, can you give me a tip on where i can find it?

Temir

Arctic101 · November 29, 2010, 1:41pm

Problem With CJuiAutoComplete

Hello.

Brief manual for Yii and MVC bellow. See Updates 1-3 of this post.

I can create any program in PHP. It’s no problem. But now I need to work with Framework YII and I’m lost. Every single tutorial, that is ment to be a tutorial for beginers, is too complicated for me.

I don’t understad why I need the “basic aplication” that is generated via command line. Every manual begins with it and the author than only changes and breafly describes the huge generated project. I dont want to change existing project, I want to create my own and brand new one.

My task is to create database and connect it to web pages. Show it’s content to users. I want to create my own folder structure, logics and design. I understand, that command line can generate model of my DB. (model = recognise DB structure) That is OK. Why not.

But I dont know where to begin with my application. I dont understand how YII works.

Can anyone paste here working code of a SIMPLE application that would just read data from table and showed them in a simple CSS box? I dont want to use design that "Basic application" uses. I want to create my own.

If I could write my web pages using standard PHP it would be question of 1-2 days. But now, I have been learning and trying to understand YII for 1 week and I’m still lost.

I would love to read some “complete idot’s introduction to YII” (but in simplified version) where would be shown how to create primitive application without generating any “default application”. I want to create my web just using text editor! No command line, no auto generating code, only a few files …

So I could understand meaning of all commands that are used in "Bacis application" that is generated using command: "yiic webapp test".

Thanks for replies.

Update1:

I found this helloWorld application description, which was very helpful, because it explained everything it mentioned.

http://code.google.com/p/yii/issues/detail?id=86

It’s the kind of useful tutorial I like. But it, of course, didnt teach me everything. If anyone has something similar, let us know.

Update2:

Second thing that helped me a lot was this video.

http://www.yiiframework.com/screencast/blog/

I recommend to download it, because when you pause this video a form appears and hides the screen.

To download this video you need a special Addon to firefox named "Fast YouTube Download":

https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/15002

Update3:

Now I understand basics od MVC and Yii and I’d like to help another beginers who are lost as same as I was one month ago. So I work on a brief introduction to MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture and Yii. It will be written in english and published in PDF. I’d like to broaden the text as I understand Yii more and more and have more and more time… It will contain not only boring theory, but also peaces of code that could simplify beginer’s work. PDFs will be available in this forum.

Leave me here comments please, so I know what is good or bad and wheather someone reads my paper…

Thanks Rac, Im in the process of Updating my 1st Website , this helps a lot.

Cheers

jacmoe · December 5, 2010, 6:26pm

If you’re looking for the screencasts:

http://www.yiiframework.com/screencasts/

doodleme · December 12, 2010, 9:41am

Great tutorial !

Thank you

fouss · December 13, 2010, 3:00pm

Thanks rackycz!

Every beginner should this topic

fouss · December 14, 2010, 8:29am

How to make that TheSimpliestYiiApplication work?

Vinjaya · January 4, 2011, 2:42pm

Nice effort

You can include condifuring gii, so that you don’t need to use command line to generate models, controllers.

it is just uncommenting the gii module in config/main.php

	'gii'=&gt;array(


		'class'=&gt;'system.gii.GiiModule',


		'password'=&gt;'password',


	),

and then access the following URL

http://localhost/demo/index.php?r=gii

HappyGiant · March 8, 2011, 9:45pm

Don’t know if you’re still here, but this is fantastic it answered my ajax questions

rackycz · March 13, 2011, 12:37pm

Thank you I’m glad that I made something usefull

bigN · June 27, 2011, 7:32am

Hi,

Keep em going… just hope that you will publish/update with even more examples… I find Yii difficult to grasp due to a lot conventions and built in functionality. I understand that these kind of tools are necessary for real programming but they just not very helpful for learning.

I would like to see more tutorials similar to CodeIgnitor… which (for me ) is best for MVC learning but not so great for productivity, due to the lack of tools like gii.

Also, it would be nice to have step - by -step tutorials, without using gii in order to have better understanding what actually this tool does.

Thanks

rackycz · July 14, 2011, 8:51am

I am back and preparing version 07 !! (see PDF in the first post)

… Will add a few clever things about models, scopes, "with" statement etc…

I will of course reflect everything you mentioned in your posts

flashvn1 · August 17, 2011, 2:37pm

Cool,

When can we expect to have a look at the 07 doc ?

shamsuljewel · August 21, 2011, 1:27am

wow rackycz, it helped me…as u actually write it more friendly…

thanks this will may help to the newbie of Yii…

rackycz · September 8, 2011, 7:53am

Version 7 available! (see the first post)

yauri · September 11, 2011, 12:27pm

Thank you! I appreciate what you’ve made

kcching · September 23, 2011, 4:36am

Thanks a lot for the knowledge sharing! Helps to clarify some concept and ideas.

Burgiking · October 4, 2011, 11:01pm

Really good input to the community! I’ve also found the framework complicated and not as intuitive as others.

kiruban · October 6, 2011, 7:08am

Thanks a lot, great work.