Yii 2 Basic Project Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for rapidly creating small projects.
The template contains the basic features including user login/logout and a contact page. It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your application.
assets/ contains assets definition
commands/ contains console commands (controllers)
config/ contains application configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
mail/ contains view files for e-mails
models/ contains model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
tests/ contains various tests for the basic application
vendor/ contains dependent 3rd-party packages
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
The minimum requirement by this project template that your Web server supports PHP 7.4.
If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.
You can then install this project template using the following command:
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL, assuming basic is the directory
directly under the Web root.
http://localhost/basic/web/
Extract the archive file downloaded from yiiframework.com to
a directory named basic that is directly under the Web root.
Set cookie validation key in config/web.php file to some random secret string:
'request' => [
// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => '<secret random string goes here>',
],You can then access the application through the following URL:
http://localhost/basic/web/
Update your vendor packages
docker-compose run --rm php composer update --prefer-dist
Run the installation triggers (creating cookie validation code)
docker-compose run --rm php composer install
Start the container
docker-compose up -d
You can then access the application through the following URL:
http://127.0.0.1:8000
NOTES:
- Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.
- Check and edit the other files in the config/ directory to customize your application as required.
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