Chapter 1. Instant Yii 1.1 Application Development Starter

Welcome to Instant Yii 1.1 Application Development Starter. This book has been designed as a crash course in web application development with the Yii Framework. You will learn a step-by-step approach to building database-driven websites utilizing the features and extensions available in Yii.

This book contains the following sections:

So, what is Yii? – In this section, we'll start with a short review of what the Yii framework is, how it got started, and the overall benefits you'll get when you start using it.

Installation – In this section, we'll install Yii Framework and kickstart your first "Hello World" application with it.

Quick start – Given the automatically-generated example application, ...

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