Yii 2 Practical Project Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application based on the
yii2-advanced template best for
developing complex Web applications with multiple tiers. The template allows a
practical method to directly access the frontend from the app root.
The template includes three tiers: front end, back end, and console, each of which
is a separate Yii application.
The template is designed to work in a team development environment. It supports
deploying the application in different environments.
Why yii2-practical?
After installing an app in the yii2-advanced application you normally would access the
frontend by:
http://domain/app/frontend/web
However, in many practical scenarios (especially on shared and single domain hosts) one
would want their users to directly access frontend as:
http://domain/app
The yii2-app-practical enables you to achieve just that by carefully moving and rearranging the
bootstrap files and web components of frontend to work directly out of the app root. The
frontend/web is entirely eliminated and one can directly access the application frontend
this way:
http://domain/app
All other aspects of the app configuration remain the same as the yii2-advanced app. The common, backend and console
will remain as is. The frontend config, assets, models, controllers, views, widgets and components, will still reside within
the frontend directory. It is just the web access that is moved out to app root.
SOME KEY ADDITIONS
- The template has some security preconfigured for users with Apache web servers. It has a default
.htaccesssecurity configuration setup. - The template has prettyUrl enabled by default and the changes have been made to
.htaccessas well asurlManager
component config in the common config directory. - The template has isolated cookie settings for backend and frontend so that you can seamlessly access frontend and backend from same client.
The config files includes specialidentityandcsrfcookie parameter settings for backend. Edit it according to your needs if necessary.
Detailed documentation can be referred at docs/guide/README.md.
DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
/
/ contains the frontend entry script, favicon, and robots.txt.
assets/ contains frontend application runtime web assets such as JavaScript and CSS
common
config/ contains shared configurations
mail/ contains view files for e-mails
models/ contains model classes used in both backend and frontend
tests/ contains tests for common classes
console
config/ contains console configurations
controllers/ contains console controllers (commands)
migrations/ contains database migrations
models/ contains console-specific model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
backend
assets/ contains backend application runtime web assets such as JavaScript and CSS
config/ contains backend configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
models/ contains backend-specific model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
tests/ contains tests for backend application
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
frontend
assets/ contains web assets and scripts used by frontend application
config/ contains frontend configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
models/ contains frontend-specific model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
tests/ contains tests for frontend application
views/ contains view files for the Web application
widgets/ contains frontend widgets
vendor/ contains dependent 3rd-party packages
environments/ contains environment-based overrides