Introduction ============ - [Overview](overview.md) - What is Yii and what is it good for? Getting started =============== - [Upgrading from 1.1 to 2.0](upgrade-from-v1.md) - [Installation](installation.md) - How to download Yii and configure the Webserver? - [Configuration](configuration.md) - Configuration of a Yii application - [Basic Application Template](apps-basic.md) - A template to start a basic frontend application. - [Advanced Application Template](apps-advanced.md) - The basis for more advanced applications. - [Creating your own Application structure](apps-own.md) - Learn how to start from scratch. Base concepts ============= - [Basic concepts of Yii](basics.md) - The Object and Component class, Path aliases and autoloading - [MVC](mvc.md) - Implementation of MVC in Yii and a typical MVC application flow - [Model](model.md) - The Yii Model provides Attributes, Scenarios and data Validation - [View](view.md) - Rendering Views applying layouts, using Widgets and asset management - [Controller](controller.md) - controller actions, routing and action filters - [Event Handling](events.md) - The Yii event handling mechanism - [Behaviors](behaviors.md) Database ======== - [Basics](database-basics.md) - Connecting to a database, basic queries, transactions and schema manipulation - [Query Builder](query-builder.md) - Querying the database using a simple abstraction layer - [ActiveRecord](active-record.md) - The active record ORM, retrieving and manipulatings records and defining relations - [Database Migration](migration.md) - Versioning your database with database migrations Developers Toolbox ================== - [Automatic Code Generation](gii.md) - [Debug toolbar and debugger](debugger.md) - [Error Handling](error.md) - [Logging](logging.md) Extensions and 3rd party libraries ================================== - [Composer](composer.md) - How to manage applications dependencies via composer - [Extending Yii](extensions.md) - [Template engines](template.md) - Using template engines such as Smary or Twig Security and access control =========================== - [Authentication](authentication.md) - Identifying Users - [Authorization](authorization.md) - Access control and RBAC - [Security](security.md) - Hashing and verifying passwords, encryption - [Views security](view.md#security) - how to prevent XSS Data providers, lists and grids =============================== - Overview - Data providers - Grids - Lists Advanced Topics =============== - [Asset Management](assets.md) - [Working with forms](form.md) - [Bootstrap widgets](bootstrap-widgets.md) - Using [twitter bootstrap](http://getbootstrap.com/) - [Theming](theming.md) - [Caching](caching.md) - Caching data, page fragments and http requests - [Internationalization](i18n.md) - Message translation and formatting - [URL Management](url.md) - routing, customized urls and SEO - [Console Application](console.md) - [Performance Tuning](performance.md) - [Testing](testing.md) References ========== - [Model validation reference](validation.md) - [Official Composer documentation](http://getcomposer.org)