Yii application template

Yii application template for Yii 3 is best for rapidly creating projects.

Requirements

The minimum requirement by this project template that your Web server supports PHP 7.4.0.

Installation

You'll need PHP 7.4. Additionally, NodeJs and npm are used to fetch assets, so they should be installed.

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 --stability=dev yiisoft/app <your project>

In order to launch development web server run:

composer run serve

Now you should be able to access the application through the URL printed to console. Usually it is http://localhost:8080.

Directory structure

The application template has the following structure:

config/             Configuration files.
docs/               Documentation.
public/             Files publically accessible from the Internet.
    assets/         Published assets.
    index.php       Entry script.
resources/          Application resources.
    assets/         Asset bundle resources.
    layout/         Layout view templates.
    view/           View templates.
runtime/            Files generated during runtime.
src/                Application source code.
    Asset/          Asset bundle definitions.
    Controller/     Web controller classes.
    Provider/       Providers that take configuration and configure services.
tests/              A set of Codeception tests for the application.
vendor/             Installed Composer packages.

Configuration

You can find configuration in config directory. There are multiple configs, and the most interesting is params.php. Below there are details about its sections:

Application Services

There are multiple pre-configured application services.

Aliases

'aliases' => [
    // standard directory aliases
    '@root' => dirname(__DIR__),
    '@assets' => '@root/public/assets',
    '@assetsUrl' => '/assets',
    '@npm' => '@root/node_modules',
    '@public' => '@root/public',
    '@resources' => '@root/resources',
    '@runtime' => '@root/runtime',
    '@views' => '@root/resources/views'
],

See "Aliases" in the guide.

Cache

'yiisoft/cache-file' => [
    'file-cache' => [
        // cache directory path
        'path' => '@runtime/cache'
    ],
],

Log Target File

use Psr\Log\LogLevel;

'yiisoft/log-target-file' => [
    'file-target' => [
        // route directory file log
        'file' => '@runtime/logs/app.log',
        // levels logs target
        'levels' => [
            LogLevel::EMERGENCY,
            LogLevel::ERROR,
            LogLevel::WARNING,
            LogLevel::INFO,
            LogLevel::DEBUG,
        ],
    ],
    'file-rotator' => [
        // maximum file size, in kilo-bytes. Defaults to 10240, meaning 10MB.
        'maxfilesize' => 10,
        // number of files used for rotation. Defaults to 5.
        'maxfiles' => 5,
        // the permission to be set for newly created files.
        'filemode' => null,
        // Whether to rotate files by copy and truncate in contrast to rotation by renaming files.
        'rotatebycopy' => null
    ],
],

See "Logging" in the guide.

Session

'yiisoft/yii-web' => [
    'session' => [
        // options for cookies
        'options' => ['cookie_secure' => 0],
        // session handler
        'handler' => null
    ],
],

View

'yiisoft/view' => [
    // Custom parameters that are shared among view templates.
    'defaultParameters' => [
        'applicationParameters' => 'App\ApplicationParameters',
        'assetManager' => 'Yiisoft\Assets\AssetManager',
    ],
    'theme' => [
        // Apply pathMap example: ['@resources/layout' => '@resources/theme'] in yiisoft/app
        // Apply pathMap example: ['@resources/layout' => '@modulealiases/theme'] in module
        'pathMap' => [],
        'basePath' => '',
        'baseUrl' => '',
    ],    
],

Yii Debug

'yiisoft/yii-debug' => [
    // enabled/disabled debugger
    'enabled' => true
],

Application Layout Parameters

'app' => [
    'charset' => 'UTF-8',
    'language' => 'en',
    'name' => 'My Project',
],

Testing

The template comes with ready to use Codeception configuration. In order to execute tests run:

composer run serve > ./runtime/yii.log 2>&1 &
vendor/bin/codecept run

Static analysis

The code is statically analyzed with Psalm. To run static analysis:

./vendor/bin/psalm