Testing the Yii Framework

Installing

First, download the Yii Framework to somewhere sensible. I prefer to use subversion to check out the code:

svn co http://yii.googlecode.com/svn/branches/1.0 /usr/share/php/Yii

This will take a few minutes. Once it’s done, you can use the Yii Command Runner (yiic) to set up your web application:

/usr/share/php/Yii/framework/yiic webapp /var/www/html/appname

If everything went well, you should be able to access your web app with:

http://hostname/appname/

You should see a screen like the following one:

Configuring

Set up the config script to be able to connect to your database.

/var/www/html/webapp/protected/config/main.php

Uncomment the DB section, and add in your database connection details:

'db'=>array(
			'connectionString'=>'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=http_auth',
			'username'=>'root',
			'password'=>'d2x@1A1!aa!a!',
			'emulatePrepare'=>true
		),