I have developed some apps based on Yii but I still found that I haven’t used all the strong feature from Yii. I re-worked with Yii Blog Tutorial and just want to make a quick summary with Yii features.
What I learned from the Yii Blog Tutorial so far
1/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/prototype.scaffold
We can scaffold the Model, Controller , not only to main controller , model folders but also to Modules folder
2/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/prototype.auth
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Hash way to save user password
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Can Implement many UserIndentity ways like : Check Database, Facebook Login,…
3/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/post.model
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Good way to define rules for Tags and normalize Tags
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Relations Method :
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Access Related Object Information with condition , Comment::STATUS_ARRPOVED
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Quick way to generate url of a post. Just like define the url of a model
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Good way to store LookUp Table
4/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/post.create
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The Use of LookUp Table
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Can set create time, author, other information with beforeSave() method
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The way using AfterSave() and AfterFind() to update the frequency of Tags appear with old tags and new tags
5/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/post.display
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Way to throw 404 Error
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Retrieve the post with condition Approve
6/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/post.admin
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Way to custom column for Search, Refine
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Use CHTML::encode() to display text to prevent xss
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Way to use AfterDelete() to update frequency of Tags
7/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/comment.create
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Way to Ajax Validation
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Way to use SetFlash() and Error
8/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/portlet.menu
- Way to display widget Content Porlet , with the Content we want, recent comments, Tags Cloud
9/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/final.url
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Beautiful URL
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Way to use UrlManager
10/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/final.logging
- Way to log errors
11/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/final.deployment
- Nothing special
12/ http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/final.future
- Using Theme, International , Cache
