alien-art/yii2-starter-kit

Yii2 Starter Kit

Yii 2 Starter Kit

This is Yii2 start application template.

It was created and developing as a fast start for building an advanced sites based on Yii2.

It covers typical use cases for a new project and will help you not to waste your time doing the same work in every project

Before you start

Please, consider helping project via contributions or donations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Demo
• Features
• Installation
  • Manual installation
  • Docker installation
  • Vagrant installation
• Components documentation
• Console commands
• Testing
• FAQ
• How to contribute?
• Have any questions?

Quickstart

1. Install composer
2. Install docker
3. Install docker-compose
4. Run

   composer create-project trntv/yii2-starter-kit myproject.com --ignore-platform-reqs
   cd myproject.com
   composer run-script docker:build

5. Go to http://yii2-starter-kit.localhost

FEATURES

Admin backend

• Beautiful and open source dashboard theme for backend AdminLTE 2
• Content management components: articles, categories, static pages, editable menu, editable carousels, text blocks
• Settings editor. Application settings form (based on KeyStorage component)
• File manager
• Users, RBAC management
• Events timeline
• Logs viewer
• System monitoring

I18N

• Built-in translations:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Chinese
  • Vietnamese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
• Language switcher, built-in behavior to choose locale based on browser preferred language
• Backend translations manager

Users

• Sign in
• Sign up
• Profile editing(avatar, locale, personal data)
• Optional activation by email
• OAuth authorization
• RBAC with predefined guest, user, manager and administrator roles
• RBAC migrations support

Development

• Ready-to-use Docker-based stack (php, nginx, mysql, mailcatcher)
• .env support
• Webpack build configuration
• Key-value storage service
• Ready to use REST API module
• File storage component + file upload widget
• On-demand thumbnail creation trntv/yii2-glide
• Built-in queue component yiisoft/yii2-queue
• Command Bus with queued and async tasks support trntv/yii2-command-bus
• ExtendedMessageController with ability to replace source code language and migrate messages between message sources
• Some useful shortcuts

Other

• Useful behaviors (GlobalAccessBehavior, CacheInvalidateBehavior)
• Maintenance mode support (more)
• Aceeditor widget
• Datetimepicker widget,
• Imperavi Reactor Widget,
• Xhprof Debug panel
• Sitemap generator
• Extended IDE autocompletion
• Test-ready
• Docker support and Vagrant support
• Built-in mailcatcher
• many other features i'm lazy to write about :-)

DEMO

Demo is hosted by awesome Digital Ocean

• Frontend: http://yii2-starter-kit.terentev.net
• Backend: http://backend.yii2-starter-kit.terentev.net

administrator role account

Login: webmaster
Password: webmaster

manager role account

Login: manager
Password: manager

user role account

Login: user
Password: user

How to contribute?

You can contribute in any way you want. Any help appreciated, but most of all i need help with docs (^_^)

Have any questions?

Mail to [email protected]

READ MORE

• Yii2
• Docker

NOTE

This template was created mostly for developers NOT for end users. This is a point where you can start your application, rather than creating it from scratch. Good luck!