Chapters 22 and 23 of " The Yii Book" are example chapters, in which I don’t cover new material but rather put together previous material in a more complete context. These example chapters have been popular in my other books, so I thought I’d include two in this book. The specific examples I came up with are:

• A blog/CMS example
• An e-commerce site

The blog (Chapter 22) is a more complete version of what was commonly used as an example throughout the entire book. For the e-commerce example, I came up with the idea of selling books (imagine that!).

Without much formality (aside from the Shakespeare), I’d like to share four bits of Yii-related news:

• The Release of Yii 2
• Progress on “The Yii Book”
• Looking ahead to “The Yii 2 Book” (aka, the second edition)
• An online Yii 2 presentation I’m doing this Thursday, October 23, 2014 for Nomad PHP

On October 23, I’ll be doing an online presentation titled “ Faster Web Development with Yii Framework 2”. In this presentation, I’ll be introducing the Yii framework in general, and version 2 in particular. Keep reading this post or click the “Faster Web Development with Yii Framework 2” link, for an introduction to the presentation.

This is a paid event, put on by NomadPHP, but the cost is only $15, for either live attendance or a video afterwards.

In this edition…

• About This Newsletter
• On the Web => Faster Web Development with Yii Framework 2
• On the Web => How to decide when to work for free
• On the Web => Success at Sales
• Q&A => When do you decide to freelance?
• What is Larry Thinking => Money
• Larry Ullman’s Book News => “The Yii Book” et al.

The first thing you’ll need to know to use JavaScript and jQuery in Yii is how to add JavaScript to a Web page. As with any standard Web page, there are two primary options:

• Link to an external file that contains the JavaScript code
• Place the JavaScript code directly in the page using SCRIPT tags

Just as I assume you’re already comfortable with JavaScript, I’ll also assume you know the arguments for and against both approaches. (Technically, there’s a third option: place the JavaScript inline within an HTML tag. This is not a recommended approach in modern Web sites, however, and I won’t demonstrate it here.)

This is an excerpt from Chapter 12, “JavaScript and jQuery,” of “ The Yii Book“.

Linking to JavaScript Files

External JavaScript files are linked to a page using the SCRIPT tag:

\[html\]\[/html\]

The contemporary approach is to link external files at the end of the HTML BODY, although some JavaScript libraries must be included in the HEAD.

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After way too long, I’ve finally posted version 0.9 of " The Yii Book". This includes two of the hardest chapters to write: Chapter 20, “Working with Third-Party Libraries,” and Chapter 21, “Testing Your Application”. (See the current table of contents.)