Agile web application development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 : fast-track your web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP framework / / Jeffrey Winesett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814899803321
• Autore: Winesett Jeffrey
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, : Packt Publishing, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-72005-8; 9786612720055; 1-84719-959-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 006.76
• Soggetti: Web site development; Application software - Development; PHP (Computer program language)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Meet Yii; Yii is easy; Yii is efficient; Yii is extensible; MVC architecture; The model; The view; The controller; Stitching these together: Yii request routing; Blog posting example; Object-relational mapping and Active Record; Active Record; The view and controller; Summary; Chapter 2: Getting Started; Installing Yii; Installing a database; Creating a new application; Hello, World!; Creating the controller; One final step; Reviewing our request routing; Adding dynamic content; Adding the date and time Adding the date and time, a better approach; Moving the data creation to the controller; Have you been paying attention?; Linking pages together; Linking to a new page; Getting a little help from Yii CHtml; Summary; Chapter 3: The TrackStar Application; Introducing TrackStar; Creating user stories; Users; Projects; Issues; Navigation and page flow; Defining a data scheme; Defining our development methodology; Automated software testing; Unit and functional testing; Benefits of testing; Test-driven development; Testing in Yii; Unit tests; Installing PHPUnit; Functional tests Installing Selenium; Running a quick example; Hello TDD!; Summary; Chapter 4: Iteration 1: Creating the Initial TrackStar Application; Iteration planning; Creating the new application; Connecting to the database; Testing the connection; Yii and databases; Adding a db connection as an application component; Summary; Chapter 5: Iteration 2: Project CRUD; Iteration planning; Running our test suite; Creating the project table; Naming conventions; Creating the AR model class; Configuring Gii; Using Gii to create our Project AR class; Testing out our newly generated code; Creating the unit test file Testing create; Testing read; Testing update and delete; Was all that testing really necessary?; Enabling CRUD operations for users; Creating CRUD scaffolding for projects; Creating a new project; Adding a required field to our form; Reading the project; Updating and deleting projects; Managing projects in admin mode; More on testing-fixtures; Configuring the fixture manager; Creating a fixture; Configuring this fixture for use; Specifying a test database; Using fixtures; Summary; Chapter 6: Iteration 3: Adding tasks; Iteration planning; Running the test suite; Designing the schema Defining some relationships; Building the database and the relationships; Creating the Active Record model classes; Creating the issue model class; Creating the User model class; Creating the Issue CRUD operations; Using the Issue CRUD operations; Creating a new Issue; Adding the types drop-down menu; Getting the test in the ""Red""; Moving From ""Red"" To ""Green""; Moving Back To ""Red""; Getting back to ""Green"" once again; Adding the issue type dropdown; Adding the status dropdown: Do it yourself; Fixing the owner and requester fields; Enforcing a project context; Implementing a filter
• Sommario/riassunto: Fast-track your Web application development by harnessing the power of the Yii PHP framework