Yii Tutorial

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I'm wondering if there are any plans to release a quick start tutorial similar to the Blog tutorial in Prado?  It was very helpful getting me going with Prado. 

The Yii documentation looks good, but there's nothing like a tutorial to help one get their mind around implementation techniques.

Thanks,

R

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We do plan to write a tutorial like the one in Prado, but this won't be available until after 1.0 is released.

The quickstart section in the Guide should already be a very good start point because it presents the basic directory structure and implements the most commonly used CRUD.

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Thanks Qiang. 

I imagine it's not at the top of your priority list, but good to hear it's coming. 

The quickstart is fine, but a tutorial would really get new users to dive into it. 

Regards,

R

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Hi,

a tutorial would indeed be helpful for those who are not familiar with Prado and may have problem figuring out how a complete webapp (e.g. a blog) should be written following good practises.

(I must confess, I’m one of them  :-[ )

8)

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yeah, I am a newer, I strongly want a tutorial! :-[

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The documentation for Yii is very excellent, both the api section and the Definitive Guide, but I agree that a blog tutorial would be very helpful.  May I recommend that the blog tutorial use a database user logon system?

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Thanks for all your suggestions. Since 1.0 is released, now the blog tutorial becomes the top priority.

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Just an idea: How about using the PRADO blog tutorial as a commented example on how to convert a PRADO application to Yii? Not sure if the blog tutorial is the best example though. But something like this might be useful for a lot of Pradoers who are afraid of switching…

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That's funny that you mention that.  I am trying to write my first Yii site and keep going back to how I did it in Prado and how to do it in Yii.  I think it would be helpful, but we can't forget the potential new users of Yii who have never used Prado. 

Regards,

R

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Sure, so two tutorials might be even better ;)

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now the jobeet project is taking place in symfony community, i really hope there is a similar activity in yii community.

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Symfony's documentation is very nice. I think as our community grows, we will also have more high quality tutorials. I am currently working on the blog tutorial.

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nice qiang,

i'm waiting for the tutorials.

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Symfony's documentation is very nice. I think as our community grows, we will also have more high quality tutorials. I am currently working on the blog tutorial.

Awesome, I’ll be wait…  :)

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Wow, I do not patient to be waiting…

Quickstart on prado is very helpful. That was the first thing i looked for when I had downloaded yii framework sources. But i couldn’t found one. I spent many times to read one by one articles and much topics on this forum, but I still confuse where i had to start. Then I got follow this Yii Blog Tutorial Movie link, and it answered my questions. Thank you so much to the Author. I do appreciate it. ;)