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Looking Ahead
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To this end, you have created a complete Yii application, and you have learned how to implement some commonly
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needed features, such as getting data from users using an HTML form, fetching data from database and
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displaying it in a paginated fashion. You have also learned how to use [Gii](tool-gii.md) to generate
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code automatically, which turns programming into a task as simple as just filling out some forms. In this
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section, we will summarize the resources about Yii that help you be more productive when using Yii.
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* Documentation
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- The Definitive Guide:
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As the name indicates, the guide precisely defines how Yii should work and gives you a general guidance
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about using Yii. It is the single most important Yii tutorial that you should read through
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before writing any Yii code.
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- The Class Reference:
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This specifies the usage of every class provided by Yii. It should be mainly used when you are writing
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code and want to understand the usage of a particular class, method, property.
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- The Wiki Articles:
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The wiki articles are written by Yii users based on their own experiences. Most of them are written
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like cookbook recipes which show how to solve particular problems using Yii. While the quality of these
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articles may be as good as the Definitive Guide, they are useful in that they cover broader topics
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and can often provide to you ready-to-use solutions.
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- Books
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* [Extensions](http://www.yiiframework.com/extensions/):
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Yii boasts a library of thousands of user-contributed extensions that can be easily plugged into your applications
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and make your application development even faster and easier.
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* Community
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- [Forum](http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/)
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- [GitHub](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2)
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- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/groups/yiitalk/)
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- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/yiiframework)
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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/groups/yii-framework-1483367)
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