Quick start – creating an application

The Yii website contains, among its wonderful documentation, a tutorial on how to build a basic blog application, which is one of the included demos in the framework source. It's in Tutorials | The Yii Blog Tutorial section. The direct URL is http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/.

Let's use this example while we explain the aspects of Yii-based applications. We will not repeat the complete example here, of course, because you can read it in full on the website.

Step 1 – planning the workflow

When you write a real application, you should start with the requirements regarding application functionality. For the blog example, this is described in the Getting Started: Requirements Analysis section at the very beginning ...

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