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Defining Databases for the Yii Application

November 5, 2009
This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series Learning the Yii Framework

This is the fourth post in my series on Yii, my favorite PHP framework. [intlink id=”473″ type=”post”]In the first[/intlink], I show how to download and test the framework itself. [intlink id=”563″ type=”post”]In the second[/intlink], I show how to create a basic Web application. [intlink id=”583″ type=”post”]In the third[/intlink], I walk through some configuration options. In this post, I want to discuss the database design that will be the foundation for the Yii application I’m demonstrating (in the subsequent four posts). The specific example will be a classic employees-departments application, with each employee in one department. This post does assume you have an existing Yii application to work with, most likely by following the steps in my previous posts.

(Note: In October 2010, I’ve updated this entire series to reflect changes in Yii since this series was written, and to take into account feedback provided through the comments. Some outdated material will be crossed out, but left in to reflect how things have changed since the series was begun in June 2009.)

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Configuring Yii

November 3, 2009
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Learning the Yii Framework

This is the third post in my series on Yii, my favorite PHP framework. [intlink id=”473″ type=”post”]In the first[/intlink], I show how to download and test the framework itself. [intlink id=”563″ type=”post”]In the second[/intlink], I show how to create a basic Web application. The end of that post also discusses the files and folders in the application directory. You’ll want to be familiar with those as you go forward. In this post, I discuss how you’ll want to configure your Yii-based application, including handling errors, adding components, and establishing a database connection. This post does assume you have an existing application to work with; if you don’t, follow the steps in the previous two posts.

(Note: In October 2010, I’ve updated this entire series to reflect changes in Yii since this series was written, and to take into account feedback provided through the comments. Some outdated material will be crossed out, but left in to reflect how things have changed since the series was begun in June 2009.)

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Getting Started with the Yii Framework

October 31, 2009
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Learning the Yii Framework

Many, many moons ago I wrote [intlink id=”473″ type=”post”]a post introducing the Yii framework[/intlink]. It’s a framework for creating Web applications using PHP 5 (or greater) that I’ve really liked since I originally started with it. Ruby on Rails was the first Web development framework I personally used (back in 2005) and Zend was the first PHP framework. I love the former, and Yii is quite like it in many ways, but I never really took to Zend. In that first post, I discussed just downloading and testing Yii; here I’ll walk through creating the beginnings of a Web application.

(Note: In October 2010, I’ve updated this entire series to reflect changes in Yii since this series was written, and to take into account feedback provided through the comments. Some outdated material will be crossed out, but left in to reflect how things have changed since the series was begun in June 2009.)

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Understanding MVC: Coding

October 15, 2009
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Understanding MVC

In the [intlink id=”453″ type=”post”]first part[/intlink] on this series about the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern, I discuss the individual parts and what they represent. In the [intlink id=”505″ type=”post”]second part[/intlink], I layout some common conventions of MVC frameworks. Both of those posts lead up to this one, in which I want to talk about actual code. In my opinion, it’s not too hard to understand what MVC means, in theory, or to follow a framework’s naming rules, but then you start developing a project and can quickly become confused as to where you actually put your code.

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Understanding MVC: Framework Conventions

October 10, 2009
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Understanding MVC

[intlink id=”453″ type=”post”]In a previous post[/intlink], I introduce the MVC design pattern, commonly used in frameworks and other programming situations. In that post, I wrote about the Model, View, and Controller parts: their specific roles and how they relate to one another. Those are the fundamental pieces of MVC, but I personally found that knowing what this means in terms of code is a whole different subject. I want to eventually focus on that, but first I have to discuss some of the conventions that frameworks use and how they might differ from one framework to the next.

In this post, I’ll use a hypothetical employees-departments example, giving examples using the Yii framework, the Zend Framework, and Ruby on Rails (these are the three frameworks with which I’m most familiar). If you’re using a different framework, let alone a different language, some of the syntax and particulars will change but the basic principles will still apply, and that’s the important thing I’m trying to get across here. In my next post on this subject, I’ll provide some representative code (I was hoping to do that here, but this subject became too expansive, as commonly happens for me).

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