This is my template on a clean web setup for a Yii project. This includes having the document root and its public files separated from the protected files and setting up Yii with composer for your project.
You also have the possibility to setup defaults configs for your project in
protected/config/main.php
protected/config/console.php
protected/config/test.php
And let your clients override some of the parameters in
protected/config/main.local.php
protected/config/console.local.php
protected/config/test.local.php
Feel free to post your opinion on this approach and let us create a re-usable template/setup for us Yii developers.
Maybe there are also some more dependencies or modules you suggest having by default? Let me know.
- Create your project from this template
composer create-project firegate666/yii-web-setup - Adjust package meta information in composer.json
- That's it, now you are ready to develop your project.
- use git as versioning tool
If your project has different need on dependencies, delete composer.lock, adjust composer.json to your needs and run composer again to install your dependencies.
This project is shipped with a vagrant box example setup that you can use to start developing.
- On your development machine install Virtualbox and Vagrant.
- enter vagrant folder
- type vagrant up
It will setup everything you need to start developing. After vagrant is done, open
http://192.168.56.5/
and you will see the default yii installation. This box has xhprof pre-installed and bundled with Yii. If you want to take a look at this cool profiler, open
protected/config/main.local.php
and comment in the configuration. Now you will have a debug panel on each page with a link to the profiler result.