boilerplate-yii2

Boilerplate for create Yii 2 application

Install

1. Global replace - first important step

Replace in every file of the project:

• For human-readable labels: Boilerplate Yii 2 k4nuj8
• For urls/db/other ids: boilerplate-yii2-k4nuj8 (including this file)
• Rename the project in IDE
• Replace cookieValidationKey "q2%s25twSe2OkBJ8H6k6wUI@feAh9|" to another random string

2. Web server

• Replace /boilerplate-yii2-project-path with your local project path
• Add 127.0.0.1 boilerplate-yii2-k4nuj8.local into your hosts file
• Copy apache.conf (or dev/nginx.conf) into sites-enabled/

3. Install dependencies

composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.2.0"
composer install
npm install

4. Attach local services

• Create database "boilerplate-yii2-k4nuj8"
• Copy config.sample.php to config.php and configure it

5. Database migrations

• Run applicaion migrations

php yii migrate

Test

• Open http://boilerplate-yii2-k4nuj8.local/ the app must be already working

Clean

• Delete this file (README.md) or replace 100% of its contents with your project's Readme