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Yii2 Application Development Cookbook

You're reading from Yii2 Application Development Cookbook Discover 100 useful recipes that will bring the best out of the Yii2 framework and be on the bleeding edge of web development today

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785281761

Length 584 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Yii

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Authors (2):

Andrew Bogdanov

Eliseev

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Yii2 Application Development Cookbook Third Edition

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Routing, Controllers, and Views

3. ActiveRecord, Model, and Database

4. Forms

5. Security

6. RESTful Web Services

7. Official Extensions

8. Extending Yii

9. Performance Tuning

10. Deployment

11. Testing

12. Debugging, Logging, and Error Handling

Index

Chapter 9. Performance Tuning

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Following best practices
Speeding up session handling
Using cache dependencies and chains
Profiling an application with Yii
Leveraging HTTP caching
Combining and minimizing assets
Running Yii2 on HHVM

Yii is one of the fastest frameworks available. Nevertheless, when developing and deploying an application, it is good to have some extra performance for free, and to follow the best practices for the application itself. In this chapter, you will see how to configure Yii to gain extra performance. In addition, you will learn some best practices for developing an application that will run smoothly until you have very high loads.

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Authors (2)

Andrew Bogdanov

Andrew Bogdanov

Andrew Bogdanov is a seasoned web developer from Yekaterinburg, Russia with more than six years' experience in industrial development. Since 2010 he has been interested in the Yii and MVC frameworks. He has taken part in projects written in Yii such as a work aggregator for a UK company, high-load projects, real-estate projects, and the development of private projects for the government. He has worked on various CMS and frameworks using PHP and MySQL, including Yii, Kohana, Symphony, Joomla, WordPress, CakePHP, and so on. Also, having good hands in integrating third-party APIs such as Payment gateways (PayPal, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). He is very good in slicing and frontend, so he can provide full information about the Yii framework.He is also well-versed in PHP/MYSQL, Yii 1.x.x, Yii 2.x.x, Ajax, Jquery, MVC frameworks, Python, LAMP, HTML/CSS, Mercurial, Git, AngularJS, and adaptive markup. You can visit his blog at http://jehkinen.com. In his free time, he likes to visit and talk with new people and discuss web development problems. He is currently working with professionals: http://2amigos.us.

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Eliseev

Eliseev

Dmitry Eliseev has been a web developer since 2008 and specializes in server-side programming on the PHP and PHP frameworks. Since 2012 he has authored his personal blog, http://elisdn.ru, about web development in general and about the Yii Framework in particular. His blog has become a well-known resource in the Russian Yii community. He is an active member of a Russian-language forum: http://yiiframework.ru. Dmitry is interested in developmental best practices, software architectures, object-oriented programming, and other approaches. He is an author and a presenter of practical courses about the principles and best practices of object-oriented programming and the use of version control systems. And also he is an author of webinars, the Yii2 Framework, and common developmental subjects. He practices teaching and counseling by development on frameworks and using the principles of software design and improvements in common code quality. This is his first book.

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