Yii 2 Starter Kit

FEATURES

• Based on yii2-advanced application template
• Beautiful and free dashboard theme for backend - http://almsaeedstudio.com/AdminLTE
• I18N + 2 translations: Ukrainian, Russian
• Sign in, Sign up, profile(avatar, locale, personal data) etc
• User management: CRUD
• Content management: articles, categories, static pages, editable menu, editable carousels, text blocks
• File storage component
• Upload widget
• Key value storage component
• System log
• System events log
• System information
• aceeditor, imperavi, elfinder
• nginx example config

DEMO

http://yii2-starter-kit.terentev.net

http://backend.yii2-starter-kit.terentev.net

Login: webmaster
Password: webmaster

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by this application template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

INSTALLATION

Install from an Archive File

Extract the github archive file to a directory named yii2-starter-kit that is directly under the Web root.

After extraction run

php composer.phar global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:1.0.0-beta1"
php composer.phar install

You can then access the application through the following URL:

http://localhost/yii2-starter-kit/web/

Install via Composer

If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.

You can then install this application template using the following command:

php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev trntv/yii2-starter-kit

CONFIGURATION

Database

Edit the file environments/local/common/config/_db.php with real data, for example:

return [
    'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
    'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2-starter-kit',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '1234',
    'charset' => 'utf8',
];

NOTE: Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.

Also check and edit the other files in the config/ directory to customize your application.

Application urls

Edit the file environments/local/common/config/_aliases.php

Yii::setAlias('@frontendUrl', 'http://example.com');
Yii::setAlias('@backendUrl', 'http://backend.example.com');
Yii::setAlias('@storageUrl', 'http://storage.example.com');

Apply migrations

php environments/local/console/yii migrate

Initial RBAC config

php environmetns/local/console/yii rbac/init

IMPORTANT: without rbac/init you CAN'T LOG IN into backend

Demo user

Login: webmaster
Password: webmaster

TODO

• Chained selects extension
• Upload Kit improvements
• Inline code documentation
• Tests
• Various improvements
• Permanent bug fixing ;)