Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to

Uday Sawant

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781782166429
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in PHP
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework for rapid web application development. It is well-designed, well-supported, easy to learn, and easy to maintain. Forms are the basic method used to collect information on the Internet, and in cases like user registration and payment process, there's a lot of data to be presented and the lists can get lengthy.

Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii is a simple and descriptive how-to that provides step-by-step recipes to help you in converting your lengthy forms into short, interactive forms. It will guide you through the inbuilt features of Yii framework to help you with this complex job.

The book starts with the basics of Yii and will guide you through creating simple forms before then converting your simple forms into multi-page forms. It will use the capabilities of Yii to ease the tasks required to do this.

Yii eases your work by providing options like database connectivity. We will also take a look at the automated code generation capabilities of Yii in generating forms and necessary CRUD operations, as well as looking at how to divide a single long form into multiple views with same controller/action, and then add form validations and AJAX support to the forms. We will also cover the upload process and how to customise Yii's looks.

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks.A concise guide that delivers immediate results with practical recipes on customizing your forms.

Who this book is for

This book is great for developers who have a basic understanding of Yii framework and want to learn some of the advanced, inbuilt features of Yii. It assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of PHP development, how forms work, and AJAX operations.

Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to

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Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to

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Credits

Author

Uday Sawant

Reviewer

Sergey Malyshev

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Commissioning Editor

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About the Author

Uday Sawant is a software engineer with a specialization in LAMP stack and cloud computing. He has completed his Master's in Computer Science and has a wealth of experience in infrastructure management and networking. Currently he is working with a startup called Anveshan Technologies as a Sr. Software Engineer.

I would like to thank my parents and my mentor Mr. Mitul Thakkar for helping me write this book.

About the Reviewer

Sergey Malyshev is an IT specialist from Ukraine. He has been working in the IT industry for more than 15 years, eight of which he has devoted to the development of web applications. Out of the conviction that it's impossible to become a great specialist in all areas at the same time, he has chosen for himself PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript as top-priority directions. During his career, Sergey took part in developing dozens of different websites, social networks, CMS, CRM, and ERP systems. He is not only a developer but also an architect, a project manager, and a technical consultant. Apart from his participation in realizing some technical projects, he also organized various advance training courses for IT specialists in the companies where he was employed. As he has a degree in management, Sergey has taken part in the business process automation of companies specializing in software development.

At present, Sergey is working as a software engineer in the company Sugar CRM and deals with the development of one of the most popular customer relationship management systems in the world. Before this he worked on developing applications based on the Yii Framework. Some of them are the search engine for the real estate website LivingThere.com and the corporate CMS system WebModulite for the New York design agency Blue Fountain Media. Participation in these projects and also work on his own extension for debugging the Yii application's Yii Debug Toolbar has helped Sergey get vast experience and expert knowledge of the Yii framework.

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Preface

Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to is a simple and descriptive how-to that provides step-by-step recipes to help you convert your lengthy forms into short, interactive forms. It will show you the inbuilt features of the Yii framework to help you with this tricky task.

What this book covers

Getting started with Yii (Simple) helps you set the Yii environment and create a skeleton of the Yii application.

Connecting to the database (Simple) shows you how to set up a database connection in the Yii application.

Using the Gii tool (Simple) covers the automated code generation features provided by Yii. We will learn how to enable the Gii tool and create Models, CRUD, forms, and application modules.

Creating basic forms (Simple) helps you to create a basic single page form with Yii.

Building multipage forms (Intermediate) shows you how to split your lengthy single page form into multipage forms by validating the form fields and maintaining page data on each page.

Validating forms (Intermediate) gives you details on the form field validation helpers provided by Yii. We will look at various validation helpers, use validation rules provided by Yii, and set our own validation rules.

AJAX forms (Advanced) helps you enable AJAX support for forms. We will take a look at the AJAX helpers provided...

Table of contents

• Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to