In order to be pragmatic and flexible, Yii PHP was born. It is a framework for object-oriented PHP development that uses the architectural pattern MVC. What makes it ideal for developing many web applications such as forums, information sites or virtual shopping.

With Yii PHP you will have no licensing problems because it is open source (BSD Licence) which makes it ideal for community, educational or long-range projects.

Yii is not so different from frameworks like Laravel or CakePHP but it provides another way of doing things. Let’s say similar but not the same.

How to install Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04?

How to install CakePHP on Ubuntu 20.04?

So, let us start.

Install Yii PHP Framework on Ubuntu 20.04

As it is a PHP framework, it is required that you have PHP installed on your computer. It also installs some PHP modules, as well as the unzip package.

:~$ sudo apt install php php-pdo php-intl php-xml php-zip php-mbstring phpunit php-mysql php-sqlite3 unzip

1.- Install Composer on Ubuntu 20.04

The installation method recommended by the Yii development team is to use composite.

As we have explained, Composer is a PHP dependency manager that can be installed on Linux, very easily.

How to install PHP Composer on Ubuntu 20.04?

Also, you can get more information about Composer with this post:

Using Composer on Linux

When Composer is installed and well configured, we can start the installation.

2.- Installing Yii PHP framework on Ubuntu 20.04

With Composer already installed, you can start the installation of Yii with the following command:

:~$ composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic project

You have to replace project with the name of your desired project.

Then the installation will start and when it is finished, you will see this screen.

Optionally you can make npm handle Javascript dependencies and not Composer. If you want to do it, edit the file composer.json

And in the end, add the following:

"replace": {
"bower-asset/jquery": ">=1.11.0",
"bower-asset/inputmask": ">=3.2.0",
"bower-asset/punycode": ">=1.3.0",
"bower-asset/yii2-pjax": ">=2.0.0"
},

So, save the changes and close the file.

The next step is to serve the project, to prove that all is well. If you did the installation on a local computer, execute this command:

:~$ php yii serve
Server started on http://localhost:8080/
Document root is "/home/angelo/project/web"
Quit the server with CTRL-C or COMMAND-C.
[Mon May 18 22:39:44 2020] PHP 7.4.3 Development Server (http://localhost:8080) started

And this will make the project available from http://localhost:8080

You can also specify a host and a port:

:~$ php yii serve 192.168.250.20 --port=1234

Finally, open your favorite web browser and go to http://host:port and you will see the following:

So, Yii is ready to start developing web applications.

Conclusion

Yii is a less popular framework than CakePHP or Laravel, but equally powerful. Many websites are made with this framework and the results are fantastic for the developer and the end-user.

On the other hand, the installation of Yii is facilitated thanks to its compatibility with Composer.

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In order to be pragmatic and flexible, Yii PHP was born. It is a framework for object-oriented PHP development that uses the architectural pattern MVC. What makes it ideal for developing many web applications such as forums, information sites or virtual shopping.

With Yii PHP you will have no licensing problems because it is open source (BSD Licence) which makes it ideal for community, educational or long-range projects.

Install Yii PHP Framework on CentOS 8

From the project’s website, we recommend using composer to perform the installation. This is because the framework has many dependencies and Composer is the best for it.

So the first step is to install Composer on CentOS 8

Install Composer on CentOS 8

Installing Composer on CentOS 8 is quite simple, but you have to install some previous packages.

So, open a terminal session and run the following:

:~$ sudo dnf install php php-json php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-soap php-gd php-xml php-cli php-zip curl

What have we just installed? Well, first of all, PHP so you can interpret Composer. Then, we installed a series of extensions that will also work for Yii. Finally, curl is a utility that we will use to download Composer.

Then, we proceed to download and install it.

:~$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Next, we will make Composer available from the terminal with the following commands:

:~$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer 
:~$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer 
:~$ source ~/.bashrc 

Now, you can check if everything went well with the next command:

:~$ composer -v 

If it shows you the version or helps you, it’s all right.

Getting Yii framework on CentOS 8

Once Composer is properly installed, we can install the Yii framework.

To do so, just use the following command:

:~$ composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic example

This command will download and configure the entire directory structure of Yii making it available to us. In this case, the project is called “example“, but obviously you can change this.

Remember that when you run this command, it will create a folder with the name of the project in the current location.

By default, Yii allows Composer to handle CSS/Javascript dependencies. If you want Composer not to do it and you want NPM, you have to do the following steps.

:~$ cd [your-project]
:~$ nano composer.json

And add the following:

"replace": {
    "bower-asset/jquery": ">=1.11.0",
    "bower-asset/inputmask": ">=3.2.0",
    "bower-asset/punycode": ">=1.3.0",
    "bower-asset/yii2-pjax": ">=2.0.0"
},

As I said, it’s not mandatory.

To check that everything is in order, we will serve the project.

From the project location, run the following command:

:~$ php yii serve

This will allow the project to be displayed in a web browser at http:/localhost:8080. Remember that this port has to be available in the firewall.

However, we can specify a different host and port:

:~$ php yii serve [Ip-address] --port=[port]

Then open your browser and go to your project and you will see the following:

So, that is it. You are ready to start creating fantastic web applications with Yii framework.

Conclusion

Yii is a less popular framework than Cake or Laravel, but equally powerful. Many websites are made with this framework and the results are fantastic for the developer and the end-user.

On the other hand, the installation of Yii is facilitated thanks to its compatibility with Composer.

Please share this post and join our Telegram Channel.

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In order to be pragmatic and flexible, Yii PHP was born. It is a framework for object-oriented PHP development that uses the architectural pattern MVC. What makes it ideal for developing many web applications such as forums, information sites or virtual shopping.

With Yii PHP you will have no licensing problems because it is open source (BSD Licence) which makes it ideal for community, educational or long-range projects.

So, let’s install Yii PHP Framework on Debian 9 and Ubuntu 18.04.

Install Apache web server

If you are going to start developing in PHP is necessary, install a web server. There are several options like Apache web server or Ngnix. Both valid and very good. However, for this tutorial, I will use the Apache web server.

Open a Terminal and run this command:

:~$ sudo apt install apache2

Then, enable and start the service.

:~$ sudo systemctl enable apache2
:~ sudo systemctl start apache2

Next, open a web browser and go to HTTP://localhost. If you see this, everything is OK.

Install Yii PHP Framework

Installing Yii PHP is simply because I will do it via Composer which is a dependency manager for PHP that really does wonders. So, the first step is to install Composer.

Open a terminal and run:

:~$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Now, make composer available to all users from the terminal in the form of a command.

:~$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Now, install Yii PHP Framework using Composer.

:~$ composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic example

Note: You can change example for the name you want.

Now, move the created folder. In my case is example.

:~$ sudo mv example /var/www/html/

Next, move to the directory.

:~$ cd /var/www/html/example

To avoid dependency problems with Composer, it is necessary to edit a file inside the example folder.

:~$ sudo nano composer.json

And add the following:

"replace": {
    "bower-asset/jquery": ">=1.11.0",
    "bower-asset/inputmask": ">=3.2.0",
    "bower-asset/punycode": ">=1.3.0",
    "bower-asset/yii2-pjax": ">=2.0.0"
},

Like this:

Now, let’s make a Virtualhost for Yii PHP.

Copy the Apache default site configuration file. Then, edit it.

:~$ sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/yii.conf
:~$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/yii.conf

And add the following:

 RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . index.php
 RewriteRule ^index.php/ - [L,R=404]

One more thing, for all Yii applications the document root is /var/www/html/PROJECT_FOLDER/web. In my case, the VirtualHost file for Yii will be something like this.

Then, it is necessary to assign the corresponding permissions to the folder. It is also necessary to change the owner of the folder to avoid permission problems.

:~$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/example/
:~$ sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/example/*

Next, enable the VirtualHost, the rewrite module and finally, restart Apache.

:~$ sudo a2ensite yii.conf
:~$ sudo a2enmod rewrite
:~$ sudo systemctl restart apache2

Now start the Yii service. By default, Yii uses port 8080 but you can specify another port if it is busy or unavailable.

:~$ php yii serve --port=8888

Now, open your web browser and go to HTTP://localhost:8888.

That message indicates that everything went right.

Conclusion

Yii e sun framework PHP for the development of simple and complex applications standing out for its high performance. It is open source and very well supported at the community level.

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