Yii2 Lesson - 1 Installing the framework and Creating Our First Application

Uthpala Heenatigala · 391K views · 2014 · 4:38

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Why Stack Overflow recommends it

Stack Overflow users link it as a beginner walkthrough when askers are confused about installing Yii2 and its generated project structure.

Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2015 to 2017.

What it is

A short 2014 screencast, the first in a Yii2 lesson series, showing how to install the Yii2 PHP framework and generate a first application. It then walks through the files and folders the installer creates. Presented by Uthpala Heenatigala.

What people said

Recommends Ulugov · 2015-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Install Yii2 in wordpress”

Yii is a PHP framework, it is not a complete solution or ready CMS. Yii (on installing) generates basic startup folders and files to get started with a new project. To learn how to use yiic to generate basic application stucture you can watch these videos: Installing Yii on Windows/Ubuntu: [LINK] [LINK] Installing Yii2 on Windows/Ubuntu: [LINK] [this video] You should install and develop your Yii application on your localhost (Local webserver) and then upload it to your public webserver. This way is recommended. Wordpress is a complete CMS - ready to use. WP root is the folder where wordpress is installed. If you installed your wordpress website to your webhosting's public_html/htdocs/www folder

Cites Alexei · 2017-01 · Stack Overflow · on “How to remove frontend/web from url in Yii2 advanced so that it doesn't appear when I use Url::to”

You have a lot of questions about basic stuff. what about this [this video] And you can see in them a lot of stuff for ccs and not only

Cites open-ecommerce.org · 2017-06 · Stack Overflow · on “How to add a library using Composer?”

Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. What that means is that instead of the need to have all the external code (library, classes, modules, or whatever you want to call) you will have a configuration json file with the path to the repositories that contain this code. It is really amazing tools and it is the way to set up any serious php project. In order to deploy a project that uses composer you first will need to have php and composer on your computer in order to work. Yii2 uses composer to load all the modules so basically with composer you can't do anything at all. The first link you show is not a Yii2 project and the second is a Yii2 extension wrapper of your first link [