Getting started with yii2-advanced-app

Remarks#

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Installation or Setup

Installation Requirements

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

Yii2-advanced-app can be installed in two ways. They are

Installing via Composer
Installing from an Archive File

1) Installing via Composer

If you do not already have Composer installed, you may do so by following the instructions at getcomposer.org. On Linux and Mac OS X, you’ll run the following commands:

First we need to install composer.

Step-1 Install Composer. Run below command in your terminal

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Step-2 Now change directory

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Step-3 check composer working

composer

If Composer installed successfully.

Then install the application using the following commands:

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"
composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced yii-application

The first command installs the composer asset plugin which allows managing bower and npm package dependencies through Composer. You only need to run this command once for all. The second command installs the advanced application in a directory named yii-application. You can choose a different directory name if you want.

2) Installing from an Archive File

Extract the archive file downloaded from yiiframework.com to a directory named advanced that is directly under the Web root.

Modify the config/web.php file by entering a secret key for the cookieValidationKey configuration item (this is done automatically if you are installing Yii using Composer):

// !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => 'enter your secret key here',

Then follow the instructions given in the next subsection.

Preparing application

After you install the application, you have to conduct the following steps to initialize the installed application. You only need to do these once for all.

Open a console terminal, execute the init command and select dev as environment.

/path/to/php-bin/php /path/to/yii-application/init

If you automate it with a script you can execute init in non-interactive mode.

/path/to/php-bin/php /path/to/yii-application/init --env=Production --overwrite=All

Create a new database and adjust the components['db'] configuration in common/config/main-local.php accordingly.
Open a console terminal, apply migrations with command /path/to/php-bin/php /path/to/yii-application/yii migrate.