Bootstrap with Yii ================== Yii provides a few ready-to-use application templates. Based on your needs, you may choose one of them to bootstrap your project. In the following, we describe how to get started with the "Yii 2 Basic Application Template". ### Install via Composer If you do not have [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/), you may download it from [http://getcomposer.org/](http://getcomposer.org/) or run the following command on Linux/Unix/MacOS: ~~~ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php ~~~ You can then install the Bootstrap Application using the following command: ~~~ php composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic yii-basic ~~~ Now you should be able to access the Bootstrap Application using the URL `http://localhost/yii-basic/web/`, assuming `yii-basic` is directly under the document root of your Web server. As you can see, the application has four pages: the homepage, the about page, the contact page and the login page. The contact page displays a contact form that users can fill in to submit their inquiries to the webmaster, and the login page allows users to be authenticated before accessing privileged contents. The following diagram shows the directory structure of this application. ~~~ yii-basic/ yii yii command line script for Unix/Linux yii.bat yii command line script for Windows requirements.php the requirement checker script commands/ containing customized yii console commands config/ containing configuration files console.php the console application configuration main.php the Web application configuration controllers/ containing controller class files SiteController.php the default controller class vendor/ containing third-party extensions and libraries models/ containing model class files User.php the User model LoginForm.php the form model for 'login' action ContactForm.php the form model for 'contact' action runtime/ containing temporarily generated files views/ containing controller view and layout files layouts/ containing layout view files main.php the base layout shared by all pages site/ containing view files for the 'site' controller about.php the view for the 'about' action contact.php the view for the 'contact' action index.php the view for the 'index' action login.php the view for the 'login' action web/ containing Web-accessible resources index.php Web application entry script file assets/ containing published resource files css/ containing CSS files ~~~ TBD