Yii 2 Starter Kit

This is Yii2 start application template.

It was created and developing as a fast start for building an advanced sites based on Yii2.

It covers typical use cases for a new project and will help you not to waste your time doing the same work in every project

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Features
• Demo
• Installation
• Application components
• Updates
• How to contribute?
• Have any questions

FEATURES

• Beautiful and open source dashboard theme for backend AdminLTE 2
• Translations: English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian
• Translations Editor
• Language change action + behavior to choose locale based on browser preferred language
• Sign in, Sign up, profile(avatar, locale, personal data) etc
• OAuth authorization
• User management
• RBAC with predefined guest, user, manager and administrator roles
• Content management components: articles, categories, static pages, editable menu, editable carousels, text blocks
• Key-value storage component
• Application settings form (based on KeyStorage component)
• Ready-to-go RESTful API module
• File storage component + file upload widget
• On-demand thumbnail creation trntv/yii2-glide
• Useful behaviors (GlobalAccessBehavior, CacheInvalidateBehavior, MaintenanceBehavior)
• Yii2 log web interface
• Application timeline component
• Cache web controller
• Maintenance mode component (more)
• System information web interface
• dotenv support
• ExtendedMessageController with ability to replace source code language and migrate messages between message sources
• Aceeditor widget
• Datetimepicker widget,
• Imperavi Reactor Widget,
• Elfinder Extension
• Xhprof Debug panel
• Extended IDE autocompletion
• Nginx config example
• Test-ready
• Vagrant support
• many other features i'm lazy to write about :-)

##DEMO Frontend: http://yii2-starter-kit.terentev.net

Backend: http://backend.yii2-starter-kit.terentev.net

administrator role account

Login: webmaster
Password: webmaster

manager role account

Login: manager
Password: manager

user role account

Login: user
Password: user

##REQUIREMENTS The minimum requirement by this application template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

##INSTALLATION

Before installation

If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.

Install composer-asset-plugin needed for yii assets management

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin"

Clone from GitHub

Extract the github archive file or clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/trntv/yii2-starter-kit.git

After clone run

composer install

Install via Composer

You can install this application template with composer using the following command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev trntv/yii2-starter-kit

Application configuration process include:

1. Initialise application
2. Web server configuration
3. Configure environment
4. Apply migrations
5. Initialise RBAC

Vagrant

If you want, you can use bundled Vagrant instead of installing app to your local machine.

1. Install Vagrant
2. Rename vagrant.dist.yaml to vagrant.yaml
3. Create GitHub personal API token and paste in into vagrant.yml
4. Run:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
vagrant up

That`s all. After provision application will be accessible on http://yii2-starter-kit.dev

1. Initialization

Initialise application

./init #init.bat for windows

2. Web server configuration

You should configure web server with three different web roots:

yii2-starter-kit.dev => /path/to/yii2-starter-kit/frontend/web

backend.yii2-starter-kit.dev => /path/to/yii2-starter-kit/backend/web

storage.yii2-starter-kit.dev => /path/to/yii2-starter-kit/storage

NOTE: You can use nginx.conf file that is located in the project root.

3. Setup environment

Adjust settings in .env file

3.1 Database

Edit the file .env with your data:

DB_DSN           = mysql:host=127.0.0.1;port=3306;dbname=yii2-starter-kit
DB_USERNAME      = user
DB_PASSWORD      = password

NOTE: Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.

3.2 Application urls

Set your current application urls in .env

FRONTEND_URL    = http://yii2-starter-kit.dev
BACKEND_URL     = http://backend.yii2-starter-kit.dev
STORAGE_URL     = http://storage.yii2-starter-kit.dev

4. Apply migrations

php console/yii migrate

5. Initialise RBAC config

php console/yii rbac/init

IMPORTANT: without rbac/init you CAN'T LOG IN into backend

Demo user

Login: webmaster
Password: webmaster

Application Components

I18N

If you want to store application messages in DB and to have ability to edit them from backend, run:

php console/yii message/migrate @common/config/messages/php.php @common/config/messages/db.php

it will copy all existing messages to database

Then uncomment config for DbMessageSource in

common/config/base.php

KeyStorage

Key storage is a key-value storage to store different information. Application settings for example. Values can be stored both via api or by backend CRUD component.

Yii::$app->keyStorage->set('articles-per-page', 20);
Yii::$app->keyStorage->get('articles-per-page'); // 20

ExtendedMessageController

This controller extends default MessageController to provide some useful actions

Migrate messages between different message sources: yii message/migrate @common/config/messages/php.php @common/config/messages/db.php

Replace source code language: yii message/replace-source-language @path language-LOCALE

Remove Yii::t from code yii message/replace-source-language @path

Maintenance mode

Starter kit has built-in component to provide a maintenance functionality. All you have to do is to configure maintenance component in your config

'bootstrap' => ['maintenance'],
...
'components' => [
    ...
    'maintenance' => [
        'class' => 'common\components\maintenance\Maintenance',
        'enabled' => Astronomy::isAFullMoonToday()
    ]
    ...
]

This component will catch all incoming requests, set proper response HTTP headers (503, "Retry After") and show a maintenance message. Additional configuration options can be found in a corresponding class.

Starter kit configured to turn on maintenance mode if frontend.maintenance key in KeyStorage is set to true

Behaviors

CacheInvalidateBehavior

 public function behaviors()
 {
     return [
         [
             'class' => `common\behaviors\CacheInvalidateBehavior`,
             'tags' => [
                  'awesomeTag',
                   function($model){
                       return "tag-{$model->id}"
                  }
              ],
             'keys' => [
                  'awesomeKey',
                  function($model){
                      return "key-{$model->id}"
                  }
              ]
         ],
     ];
 }

GlobalAccessBehavior

Add in your application config:

'as globalAccess'=>[
        'class'=>'\common\behaviors\GlobalAccessBehavior',
        'rules'=>[
            [
                'controllers'=>['sign-in'],
                'allow' => true,
                'roles' => ['?'],
                'actions'=>['login']
            ],
            [
                'controllers'=>['sign-in'],
                'allow' => true,
                'roles' => ['@'],
                'actions'=>['logout']
            ],
            [
                'controllers'=>['site'],
                'allow' => true,
                'roles' => ['?', '@'],
                'actions'=>['error']
            ],
            [
				'allow' => true,
				'roles' => ['@']
			]
        ]
    ]

It will allow access to you application only for authentificated users.

Widgets configurable from backend

Carousel

1. Create carousel in backend
2. Use it:

<?php echo DbCarousel::widget(['key' => 'key-from-backend']) ?>

DbText

1. Create text block in backend
2. Use it:

<?php echo DbText::widget(['key' => 'key-from-backend']) ?>

DbMenu

1. Create text block in backend
2. Use it:

<?php echo DbMenu::widget(['key' => 'key-from-backend']) ?>

Input widgets

• WYSIWYG Redactor widget
• DateTime picker
• Ace Editor
• File upload

Grid

EnumColumn

 [
      'class' => '\common\grid\EnumColumn',
      'attribute' => 'status',
      'enum' => User::getStatuses() // [0=>'Deleted', 1=>'Active']
 ]

API

Starter Kit has fully configured and ready-to-go REST API module. You can access it on http://yii2-starter-kit.dev/api/v1

Many more useful components

• common\behaviors\GlobalAccessBehavior allows to set access rules for your application in application config
• common\validators\JsonValidator validates a value to be a valid json
• ElFinder
• RBAC OwnModelRule - simple rule to check if the current user is model owner
• common\base\MultiModel - class for handling multiple models in one

##Updates Add remote repository upstream.

git remote add upstream https://github.com/trntv/yii2-starter-kit.git

Fetch latest changes from it

git fetch upstream

Merge these changes into your repository

git merge upstream/master

IMPORTANT: there might be a conflicts between upstream and your code. You should resolve conflicts on your own

##How to contribute? You can contribute in any way you want. Any help appreciated, but most of all i need help with docs (^_^)

##Have any questions? mail to [email protected]

##READ MORE https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/apps/advanced/README.md https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/tree/master/docs

###NOTE This template was created mostly for developers NOT for end users. This is a point where you can begin your application, rather than creating it from scratch. Good luck!