Yii 2 Minimal Application Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for starting totally from scratch.
The template contains the basic features including user login/logout. It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your application.
commands/ contains console commands (controllers)
config/ contains application configurations
controllers/ contains Web controller classes
models/ contains model classes
runtime/ contains files generated during runtime
vendor/ contains dependent 3rd-party packages
views/ contains view files for the Web application
web/ contains the entry script and Web resources
The minimum requirement by this application template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.
If you do not have Composer, you may install it by following the instructions at getcomposer.org.
You can then install this application template using the following command:
composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev emix/yii2-minimal-docker path/to/your/project
Now you should be able to access the application through the following URL, assuming your server webroot is pointed to
project/web
directory.
http://localhost/
Edit the file config/db.php
with real data, for example:
return [
'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=yii2minimal',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => '1234',
'charset' => 'utf8',
];
NOTES:
- Yii won't create the database for you, this has to be done manually before you can access it.
- Check and edit the other files in the
config/
directory to customize your application as required.