Awesome Yii Framework

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

Official Resources

• Official site
• Official community

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Yii 2.*

Tutorials

• The definive guide to Yii2 (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").

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.

CMS (Yii based)

• Not known.

Tools and integrations

• Not known.

Books

• 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.

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

Images

• 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.

CMS (Yii based)

• 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.

Books

• "Yii Application Development Cookbook" by Alexander Makarov.
• "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP" by Jeffrey Winesett.
• "The Yii Book" by Larry Ulman.

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Communities

• http://yiiframework.ru