• PHP
• Yii

Yii

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications.

http://www.yiiframework.com/

Slackware installation

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.url#hiding-x-23x

• cd ~/Downloads

• wget https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/releases/download/1.1.15/yii-1.1.15.022a51.tar.gz

• cp yii-1.1.15.022a51.tar.gz /vars/www/htdocs
• cd /vars/www/htdocs
• tar xvzf yii-1.1.15.022a51.tar.gz
• cd yii-1.1.15.022a51
• chown apache * -R
• chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd
• vim /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
</IfModule>
LoadModule rewrite_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so
Include /etc/httpd/mod_php.conf  # enable the php module

• vim /etc/httpd/vhosts.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhostyii
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/yii-1.1.15.022a51"
    <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/yii-1.1.15.022a51">
      Require all granted
      AllowOverride all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

• vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhostyii 

• vim /etc/httpd/php.ini

date.timezone="Europe/Lisbon"

• vim /var/www/htdocs/yii-1.1.15.022a51/demos/blog/.htaccess

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /demos/blog
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

• vim blog/protected/config/main.php

                'urlManager'=>array(
                        'showScriptName'=>false,

• /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

• Open URL http://localhostyii/demos/blog/index.php

• http://localhostyii/demos/blog/post/index

Validation rules ActiveRecord CModel

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/form.model#declaring-validation-rules

We specify the validation rules in the rules() method which should return an array of rule configurations.

   1  public function rules()
   2     {
   3         return array(
   4             array('username, password', 'required'),
   5             array('rememberMe', 'boolean'),
   6             array('password', 'authenticate'),
   7         );
   8     }

Relations ActiveRecord

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/database.arr#declaring-relationship

Override the relations() method of CActiveRecord.

Types relationship:

• self::BELONGS_TO
• self::HAS_MANY
• self::HAS_ONE
• self::MANY_MANY

   1 public function relations()
   2     {
   3         return array(
   4             'posts'=>array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Post', 'author_id'),
   5             'profile'=>array(self::HAS_ONE, 'Profile', 'owner_id'),
   6         );
   7     }

ActiveResource extension

Adapted from http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/activeresource

Steps:

• Get source code from https://github.com/Haensel/ActiveResource/

• Add the extension to Yii by placing it in your application's extension folder (for example '/protected/extensions')
• Edit your applications main.php config file and add 'application.extensions.EActiveResource.*' to your import definitions
• Add the configuration for your resources to the main config

'activeresource'=>array(
    'class'=>'EActiveResourceConnection',
    'site'=>'http://api.aRESTservice.com',
    'contentType'=>'application/json',
    'acceptType'=>'application/json',
    'queryCacheId'=>'SomeCacheComponent'
)

• Create a class extending EActiveResource like this (don't forget the model() method!):

ActiveResource implementation:

   1 class Person extends EActiveResource
   2      {
   3      /* The id that uniquely identifies a person. This attribute is not defined
   4       * as a property      
   5       * because we don't want to send it back to the service like a name, surname or    
   6       * gender etc.
   7       */
   8      public $id;
   9  
  10      public static function model($className=__CLASS__)
  11      {
  12          return parent::model($className);
  13      }
  14  
  15      /* Define the resource property of this class */
  16      public function rest()
  17      {
  18          return CMap::mergeArray(
  19          parent::rest(),
  20          array(
  21         'resource'=>'people',
  22              )
  23     );
  24      }
  25  
  26      /* Let's define some properties and their datatypes*/
  27      public function properties()
  28      {
  29          return array(
  30              'name'=>array('type'=>'string'),
  31              'surname'=>array('type'=>'string'),
  32              'gender'=>array('type'=>'string'),
  33              'age'=>array('type'=>'integer'),
  34              'married'=>array('type'=>'boolean'),
  35              'salary'=>array('type'=>'double'),
  36          );
  37      }
  38  
  39      /* Define rules as usual */
  40      public function rules()
  41      {
  42          return array(
  43              array('name,surname,gender,age,married,salary','safe'),
  44              array('age','numerical','integerOnly'=>true),
  45              array('married','boolean'),
  46              array('salary','numerical')
  47          );
  48      }
  49  
  50      /* Add some custom labels for forms etc. */
  51      public function attributeLabels()
  52      {
  53          return array(
  54              'name'=>'First name',
  55              'surname'=>'Last name',
  56              'salary'=>'Your monthly salary',
  57          );
  58      }
  59  }

Sample usage:

/* GET to http://api.example.com/person/1 and populates a single Person model*/
    $person=Person::model()->findById(1);
 
    /* GET to http://api.example.com/person and populating Person models */
    $persons=Person::model()->findAll();
 
    /* create a resource*/
    $person=new Person;
    $person->name='A name';
    $person->age=21;
    $person->save(); POST request. Returns false if the model doesn't validate
 
    /* Updating a resource (sending a PUT request)
    $person=Person::model()->findById(1);
    $person->name='Another name';
    $person->save(); //PUT request. Returns false if the model doesn't validate
 
    //or short version
    Person::model()->updateById(1,array('name'=>'Another name'));
 
    /* DELETE a resource */
    $person=Person::model()->findById(1);
    $person->destroy(); //DELETE to http://api.example.com/person/1
 
    //or short version
    Person::model()->deleteById(1);
 
    //setting attributes
    $person->attributes=$_POST['Person'];
    if($person->save())
        echo 'yipiie'; //model validated and was saved/updated

Other methods for EActiveResource:

• public function init()
• public function setAttribute($name,$value)
• public function getAttributesToSend($attributes=null)
• protected function beforeSave()
• public function sendRequest($uri,$method,$params,$data)