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Building Your Startup With PHP: User Settings, Profile Images and Contact Details

Tutorial • Intermediate

As Meeting Planner grows in sophistication, we need to provide features that personalize and customize our application for users.

Jeff Reifman • 13 Apr 2015
Yii

Building Your Startup: Access Control, Active Record Relations and Slugs

Tutorial • Intermediate

Code sprints are fun, but often you have to circle back to polish and integrate feature work. I'll show how frameworks provide infrastructure and support for...

Jeff Reifman • 4 Apr 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Localization With I18n

Tutorial • Intermediate

Make your web application accessible to users in any country with Yii2's I18n support for translation-ready resource files.

Jeff Reifman • 30 Mar 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Integrating User Registration

Tutorial • Intermediate

Yii2 offers a couple of ways to integrate user registration. We'll show you how to use a third party extension, Yii2-User.

Jeff Reifman • 23 Mar 2015
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Working With the Database and Active Record

Tutorial • Intermediate

How to use Yii's automated scaffolding generator to build advanced web database applications quickly and easily.

Jeff Reifman • 16 Mar 2015
Yii

Building Your Startup With PHP: Localization With I18n

Tutorial • Intermediate

To expand the reach of our startup to a global audience, we need to provide translations for a variety of languages. In this tutorial, we leverage Yii's I18n...

Jeff Reifman • 9 Mar 2015
Yii

Building Your Startup With PHP: Feature Requirements and Database Design

Tutorial • Intermediate

Scope out your application features and design a database schema to support it. Use Yii scaffolding to build out most of your CRUD code.

Jeff Reifman • 16 Jan 2015
Yii

Building Your Startup With PHP: Getting Started

Tutorial • Beginner

Learn how to turn your entrepreneurial business concept into an actual startup by following the instructor's own product development process.

Jeff Reifman • 2 Jan 2015
Yii

Building Your Startup With PHP: Table of Contents

Tutorial • Beginner

A guide to our ongoing series on launching your own business and product with PHP. Here's what to expect in coming episodes. Check back regularly for updates.

Jeff Reifman • 2 Jan 2015
Yii

Building With the Twitter API: OAuth, Reading and Posting

Tutorial • Advanced

In this series, we're building an application called Birdcage that interfaces with the Twitter API in PHP. In this article, learn to use OAuth for...

Jeff Reifman • 10 Nov 2014
Yii

How to Program With Yii2: Getting Started

Tutorial • Beginner

The recent release of Yii 2.0 makes it the perfect time to come up to speed with one of the most efficient, powerful and extensible PHP frameworks. This...

Jeff Reifman • 30 Oct 2014
Yii

Introduction to the Yii Framework

Tutorial • Beginner

Yii is the most powerful PHP framework you've never heard of. Here's what you've been missing out on.

Jeff Reifman • 25 Aug 2014