Yii Application Template

Application template for Yii 3 is best for rapidly creating projects

Web application template for Yii 3.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher.

Local installation

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

Create a project:

composer create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/app myproject
cd myproject

To run the app:

./yii serve

Now you should be able to access the application through the URL printed to console. Usually it is http://localhost:8080.

Installation with Docker

Fork the repository, clone it, then:

cd myproject
make composer update

To run the app:

make up

To stop the app:

make down

The application is available at https://localhost.

Directory structure

The application template has the following structure:

config/             Configuration files.
docker/             Docker-specific files.
docs/               Documentation.
public/             Files publically accessible from the Internet.
    assets/         Published assets.
    index.php       Entry script.
resources/          Application resources.
    assets/         Asset bundle resources.
    layout/         Layout view templates.
    messages/
    views/          View templates.
runtime/            Files generated during runtime.
src/                Application source code.
    Asset/          Asset bundle definitions.
    Command/        Console commands.
    Controller/     Web controller classes.
    EventHandler/
    Handler/
    ViewInjection/
tests/              A set of Codeception tests for the application.
vendor/             Installed Composer packages.
Makefile            Config for make command.

Configuration

You can find configuration in config directory. There are multiple configs, and the most interesting is common\params.php. Below there are details about its sections:

Application Services

There are multiple pre-configured application services.

Aliases

'yiisoft/aliases' => [
    'aliases' => [
        // standard directory aliases
        '@root' => dirname(__DIR__),
        '@assets' => '@root/public/assets',
        '@assetsUrl' => '/assets',
        '@npm' => '@root/node_modules',
        '@public' => '@root/public',
        '@resources' => '@root/resources',
        '@runtime' => '@root/runtime',
        '@views' => '@root/resources/views'
    ],
],

See "Aliases" in the guide.

Cache

'yiisoft/cache-file' => [
    'file-cache' => [
        // cache directory path
        'path' => '@runtime/cache'
    ],
],

Log Target File

use Psr\Log\LogLevel;

'yiisoft/log-target-file' => [
    'file-target' => [
        // route directory file log
        'file' => '@runtime/logs/app.log',
        // levels logs target
        'levels' => [
            LogLevel::EMERGENCY,
            LogLevel::ERROR,
            LogLevel::WARNING,
            LogLevel::INFO,
            LogLevel::DEBUG,
        ],
    ],
    'file-rotator' => [
        // maximum file size, in kilobytes. Defaults to 10240, meaning 10MB.
        'maxfilesize' => 10,
        // number of files used for rotation. Defaults to 5.
        'maxfiles' => 5,
        // the permission to be set for newly created files.
        'filemode' => null,
        // Whether to rotate files by copy and truncate in contrast to rotation by renaming files.
        'rotatebycopy' => null
    ],
],

See "Logging" in the guide.

Session

'yiisoft/session' => [
    'session' => [
        // options for cookies
        'options' => ['cookie_secure' => 0],
        // session handler
        'handler' => null
    ],
],

View

'yiisoft/view' => [
    // Custom parameters that are shared among view templates.
    'defaultParameters' => [
        'applicationParameters' => 'App\ApplicationParameters',
        'assetManager' => 'Yiisoft\Assets\AssetManager',
    ],
    'theme' => [
        // Apply pathMap example: ['@resources/layout' => '@resources/theme'] in yiisoft/app
        // Apply pathMap example: ['@resources/layout' => '@modulealiases/theme'] in module
        'pathMap' => [],
        'basePath' => '',
        'baseUrl' => '',
    ],    
],

Yii Debug

'yiisoft/yii-debug' => [
    // enabled/disabled debugger
    'enabled' => true
],

Application Layout Parameters

'app' => [
    'charset' => 'UTF-8',
    'language' => 'en',
    'name' => 'My Project',
],

Testing

The template comes with ready to use Codeception configuration. To execute tests, in local installation run:

./vendor/bin/codecept build

./yii serve > ./runtime/yii.log 2>&1 &
./vendor/bin/codecept run

For Docker:

make codecept build

make codecept run

Static analysis

The code is statically analyzed with Psalm. To run static analysis:

./vendor/bin/psalm

or, using Docker:

make psalm

Support

If you need help or have a question, the Yii Forum is a good place for that. You may also check out other Yii Community Resources.

License

The Yii application template is free software. It is released under the terms of the BSD License. Please see LICENSE for more information.

Maintained by Yii Software.

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