The goal of this project is to have a completely installed and running example site built using Yii. This example aims to cover as many aspects of Yii as possible. Some of the examples will cover:

• DB Migrations
• Unit Tests
• Modules
• Behaviours
• JavaScript interaction with Yii's JavaScript objects
• Provide framework for using extention and vendor add-ons development and testing.
• Use of PHP's Namespace

• A working install of Vagrant
• Capistrano
• A computer with at least 2GB of RAM

• A fast internet connection to download the Debian Vagrant box. (The file is 564MB)
• A computer with at least 4GB RAM.

These install steps assume the host system is unix based (Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD, etc.).

You will need to add the following line to your local /etc/hosts

192.168.42.101 yii-example.local.domain yii-example yii-demo-blog yii-demo-hangman yii-demo-helloworld yii-demo-phonebook

Then run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/kfacx/yii-example.git
cd yii-example
vagrant up
chmod 0600 vagrant_insecure_key
cap deploy

The vagrant up can take a long time to finish. If you have a slow internet connection it can take hours to download the base box.

Once complete, the sites can be tested with the following URLs:

http://yii-example/
http://yii-demo-blog/
http://yii-demo-hangman/
http://yii-demo-helloworld/
http://yii-demo-phonebook/

If you intend to use this project for personal development or to contribute to this project, seeing the results is easy and fast. Simply edit the files then run:

cap deploy

If all the unit tests pass then the site is now updated on the VM.