heartshare/yiit

Yii new project templates with commonly used features and extensions builtin.

Yiit (Yes it is, too)

Description

Yiit packages commonly used features in modern web applications into a Yii Project. Somewhere down the road i also plan to release it as Netbeans plugin.

Features

• .htaccess
  • Redirects non-www to www domain. Rule is generic so you don't need to customize it.
  • Supports Pretty URLs
  • Supports YII_ENVIRONMENT variable. Ideally this should be the place where you should change YII_ENVIRONMENT but you can always override it in index.php
• Support for Multiple Environment is enabled, (Thanks to this and this).
  • Config is broken on per environment basis inside protected/config with main.php containing generic settings, later overridden by environment specific config file.
  • main
    • Added yiilite path which can be enabled depending on requirements. Some people think this is environment specific, my observation differs.
    • enableCsrfValdation and enableCookieValidation set for request component
    • allowAutoLogin and loginUrl set for user component
    • Path format urls enabled
    • For application you have the choice to use a single db e.g. "db" or multiple such as Auth, Session etc.
    • AuthManager is enabled and under default config uses "db" as connectionID.
    • Cache is enabled using CDummyCache as default, but can uncomment CMemcache
    • logsEmail and staticContentDomain params are defined. Details inside config file.
  • mode_development
    • Debug enabled with traceLevel as 3
    • Gii is enabled with password password.
    • Db configurations have overridden parameters along with Profiling and ParamLogging enabled.
    • Logging
      • FileLogging enabled for error, warning, trace and info.
      • WebLogging enabled for same levels as above.
  • mode_production
    • Debug disabled with traceLevel as 0
    • Db configuration have overridden parameters and contains logDB definition
    • PHP-IDS(link) is enabled
    • Logging
      • FileLogging same as development mode
      • EmailLog for error and warning levels
      • Optional database logging to logDB for error and warning levels is configured but commented
  • mode_stage
    • Debug enabled with traceLevel as 0
    • Db configurations overridden
    • FileLogging enabled for error, warning, trace and info Levels
  • mode_test
    • Debug disabled with traceLevel as 0
    • Db configurations overridden
    • Logging same as mode_development
    • Configured fixture
• Meta Tags
  • Added support for meta tags and link tags (Thanks to this)
  • Class files located at protected/components, called ExtendedController and ParentController
  • Extend your controllers from ParentController
  • SiteController contains examples on how to set meta, controller level, action level and combined
  • Custom component class also contains some documentation that could be useful
• Added default deny rule in ParentController (Thanks to this)
• Created a theme out of default view files

How to use?

• To benefit from all the features described above, extend your controllers from ParentController instead of Controller or CController

Permissions

• Following directories should be writable by webserver
  • assets
  • protected/runtime
  • protected/components/ids/IDS/tmp

Bundled software

• yii-1.1.7.r3135
• php-ids 0.2

Future Improvements

• Add a user component(Current consideration is YiiUser), waiting for developer to add support for creating roles, setting up permissions and assigning roles for admin users, might contribute it.
• Add PHPConsole extension
• Add Settings extension
• Add Google Analytics extension
• Add/write/port some nice Paypal extension.
• Add S3 CDN Extension(Current consideration is es3)
• Add Email extension
• Add a decent Paypal extension
• Add a decent openid extension
• Copy current theme as theme_name-minified, minify css and js and use that. Add minifer script in project. (Any suggestion which one to use?)

Feature Requests/Contact/Feedback

• You can contact me at shoaib[AT|NOSPAM]linuxmail[DOT]org