Awesome Yii Framework

A curated list of awesome Yii Framework extensions, tutorials and other nice things. Inspired by awesome-php and other awesome lists.

ToC

• Yii 2.*
• Yii 1.*

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Official Resources

• Official site
• Official community

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Yii 2.*

Tutorials

• The definive guide to Yii2: HTML, PDF (work in progress).
• Try Yii2 - Vagrant VM + Ansible provisioning = Complete readymade virtual server Yii2 playground.

Project structure examples

• Official basic and advanced structures. Code.
• Minimal Application Template by samdark.
• Practical Application Template by kartik-v (and its variations "A" and "B").
• Demo blog on AngularJS with server-side Yii2 Rest API by githubjeka.

Extensions

Widgets / GUI

• kartik-v/yii2-widgets - Collection of useful widgets.
• Krajee Yii Extensions - a collection of extensions & modules.
• Lepture Markdown editor - a markdown editor you really want.

Social

• kartik-v/yii2-social - a module for embedding social plugins and widgets.
• Kudos - widget for Svbtle style Kudos.

Geo / Maps

• 2amigos/yii2-leaflet-library - extension library to display interactive maps with Leaflet.

Database

• yii2-arangodb - ArangoDB integration for the Yii2 : Connection, Query, ActiveRecord, Migrations.
• 2amigos/yii2-taggable-behavior - behavior functions for tagging.
• 2amigos/yii2-translateable-behavior - handles ActiveRecord's attribute translations.

File System

• 2amigos/yii2-file-upload-widget - handles a BlueImp jQuery File Upload plugin.

Other

• 2amigos/yii2-qrcode-helper - helper allows you to render QrCode.
• monitorbacklinks/yii2-wordpress - a component for integration with Wordpress CMS via XML-RPC API.

CMS (Yii based)

• Not known.

Tools and integrations

• Not known.

Books

• "Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP" by Mark Safronov.
• Larry Ulman has a plan to update his Yii book for Yii2 after its release.
• Yii2 Cookbook by samdark (work in progress).

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Yii 1.*

Tutorials

• For sure you should start with official guides.
• Yii 1.1: How to learn Yii?! - Bring some learning flow recommendation.
• A longer series on installing, using, and customizing the Yii framework by Larry Ulman.
• Under the Hood of Yii’s Component Architecture (3 parts) - must read to get deep understanding of what Components are in Yii.
• Configuring PhpStorm IDE for Yii.
• Configuring NetBeans IDE for Yii.

Project structure examples

• Yiinitializr - a project template generator. Has 3 options - basic, intermediate and advanced.
• YiiBoilerplate - structure for enterprise-grade websites. Vagrant, test and static code analysis tool inside.
• crisu83/yii-app - advanced structure, Vagrant and basic set of extensions inside.
• YiiBackboneBoilerplate - the flexibility of YiiBoilerplate with a twist for BackboneJS applications.

Extensions

Widgets / GUI

• YiiBooster - a collection of Bootstrap based widgets.
• YiiWheels - like a YiiBooster, but with more optimized approach.
• YiiStrap - the ultimate Twitter Bootstrap extension for Yii.
• YiiFoundation - extension library for ZURB Foundation Framework.

Database

• MongoYii - a Yii MongoDB ORM.

Input

• Imperavi redactor widget - Imperavi Redactor WYSIWYG widget (OEM-licensed for Yii).
• X-editable - bundle of widgets and server-side component for creating editable elements in Yii application.

Image

• crisu83/yii-image - image versioning and manipulation.

Authentication / RBAC

• yii-auth - web UI for Yii's authorization manager.
• yii-eauth - allows to authenticate users by the OpenID, OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 providers.

Scaffolding

• giix - gii extended.
• yii-caviar - next generation code generation for Yii.

Template

• Twig renderer - allows to use Twig template engine in views.
• Smarty renderer - allows you to use Smarty 3 templates in views.
• Fenom renderer - allows to use Fenom template engine in views.
• Quicky renderer - allows to use Quicky template engine in views.
• Haml renderer - allows to use Haml in views.

Debug

• Yii2 debug panel port - debug panel for Yii 1.1 (ported from Yii 2).
• Debug toolbar - a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response.
• Db profiler - Yii profiler adjusted to deal with MySQL performance optimizations.

API

• RESTFullYii - full HTTP verb support for resources, the ability to offset, limit, sort, filter and manipulate related data.

Other

• EAV behavior - implements entity-attribute-value pattern.
• Nested Set Behavior - AR models behavior that allows to work with nested sets tree.
• Activerecord relation behavior - put together the awesomeness of many yii extensions that aim to improve saving of related records.

CMS (Yii based)

• HumHub - a flexible open source Social Network Kit.
• Phundament - universal HTML5 Application Boilerplates.
• Yupe - simple, lite and easy. Uses Yii, Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery.
• CiiMS - a high performance CMS blogging platform designed to be easy to use.
• yiicms - easy CMS with the basic modules and extensions to start.
• Craft - very slick commercial CMS with a free plan.

Tools and integrations

• YiiStorm - Yii framework integration for PhpStorm.
• NetBeans Yii Plugin - add navigation, code completion and command run support.

Books

• "Yii Project Blueprints" by Charles R. Portwood II.
• "Yii Application Development Cookbook" by Alexander Makarov.
• "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP" by Jeffrey Winesett.
• "The Yii Book" by Larry Ulman.
• "Yii Rapid Application Development Hotshot" by Lauren J. O'Meara, James R. Hamilton III.
• "Beginning Yii [Video]" by Chris Backhouse.

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Communities

• http://yiinewsletter.com - the best Yii tips, tricks, and tools delivered to your inbox.
• http://yiiframework.ru - Russian-speaking community.