The Yii Framework provides straightforward support for implementing APIs, essential to making your application data available to other apps and services.

Yii2 provides a built-in capacity for running Linux-based cron scripts. Learn how to ditch your wget scripts for a cleaner, more secure console-based approach.

Learn to add followers to users' accounts with their authorization. This episode also switches to a simpler PHP-based API library.

In order to begin mobile app development, I needed to design and code the API for Meeting Planner. Learn how it's done and how I did it in PHP with Yii.

To create a more friendly, social branding option, I launched Simple Planner on the Meeting Planner codebase. Learn how to do this in the Yii Framework.

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Improve the structure efficiency and security of your database programming. Learn to apply active record patterns with your database programming in Yii2.

Learn how to authenticate user cell phone numbers before allowing them access to ongoing texting services.

Finding production errors can be difficult without proper error handling or a cloud-based logging service. I tried two. Follow along and learn how logging...

To make scheduling easier, I wanted people to be able to select from their Google contacts. Learn how I used the Google APIs to import them.

Supporting group scheduling has always been a major goal in Meeting Planner. I've planned for it since nearly the beginning. Follow along as I begin to add...

Supporting group scheduling has always been a major goal in Meeting Planner. I've planned for it since nearly the beginning. Follow along as I begin to add...