Yii 2 Basic Application Template

NOTE Yii 2 and the relevant applications and extensions are still under heavy development. We may make significant changes without prior notices. Please do not use them for production. Please consider using Yii v1.1 if you have a project to be deployed for production soon.

Thank you for using Yii 2 Basic Application Template - an application template that works out-of-box and can be easily customized to fit for your needs.

Yii 2 Basic Application Template is best suitable for small Websites which mainly contain a few informational pages.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

  commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
  config/             contains application configurations
  controllers/        contains Web controller classes
  models/             contains model classes
  runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
  vendor/             contains dependent 3rd-party packages
  views/              contains view files for the Web application
  web/                contains the entry script and Web resources

REQUIREMENTS

The minimum requirement by Yii is that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

In order for captcha to work you need either GD2 extension or ImageMagick PHP extension.

INSTALLATION

Install via Composer

If you do not have Composer, you may download it from http://getcomposer.org/ or run the following command on Linux/Unix/MacOS:

curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php

You can then install the Bootstrap Application using the following command:

php composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic yii-basic

Now you should be able to access the application using the URL http://localhost/yii-basic/web/, assuming yii-basic is directly under the document root of your Web server.

Note that in order to install some dependencies you must have php_openssl extension enabled.

Install from an Archive File

This is not currently available. We will provide it when Yii 2 is formally released.

Install from development repository

If you've cloned the Yii 2 framework main development repository you can bootstrap your application with:

cd yii2/apps/basic
php composer.phar create-project

Note: If the above command fails with [RuntimeException] Not enough arguments. run php composer.phar self-update to obtain an updated version of composer which supports creating projects from local packages.