Getting Started with yii2 framework - Course introduction

The following video is an introduction video on yii2 framework.
This video is the first video from the series of videos around the framework.
This video is a course introduction video.

All next videos will be focused on one particular topic and I am going to cover all basic and advanced stuff like:
- forms
- models
- controllers
- databases
- caching
- logging
- rbac
and so on...

If you prefer to see one video which covers the most common features of the framework (but not in too much details), I recommend the following crash course video, where I build a minimalistic blog.

Yii2 Crash course:

Building a REST API using yii2.

Videos about Object Oriented PHP.

I will answer a few questions about the framework and then we can install it and write "Hello World".

Questions answered in the video:
1. What is yii2 framework?
2. What advantages does it have?
3. Is it popular?
4. What are its important features?
5. What are the prerequisites to learn yii2?

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[pietrononame]

Very intuitive and one of the easiest and readable framework. Thank you.

[NicoILeone]

I would love that in Latin America it is as requested and popular as Laravel, because this framework truly has enormous potential! Regards!

[mika]

Hey Zura. Thank you so much for these modern PHP videos (a lot of the tutorials are years old). I've been learning PHP for a bit now and recently stumbled across Craft CMS (built on top of Yii2) and it looks amazing, so I started searching for Yii2 tutorials (to understand it better) and your videos came up. I haven't yet watched the Yii playlist, but I did watch your series about OOP and other PHP related stuff and cannot wait to get started with this stuff. Also saw you are featured on freecodecamp aswell. You deserve the recognition! Thank you once again.

[kiranugale]

Very nice as you are showing all the alternative ways of doing code in framework. Really very helpful.

[giaz]

i would highly recommend this video to other. thanks and waiting to play for the next video. ;)

[overcomeridemudia]

Thank you so much! What an excellent introduction.

[music-unleashed]

You are doing god's work here son!

[marekremis]

Hello Codeholic, just wanted to thank you for theese courses.:)

[naresh]

You are covering everything from beginner to advance level.
I am liking your videos very much.
Now It been 3 years that I have been using this framework and by seeing your videos it feels like everyday is a day of learning something new.
Thank you for the yii2 support .
Really thumbs up 👍
Could you please let me know how much time did you take to master yii2 ?

[mosesm]

Thank you, i will be following all your comming tutorials.

[fredmungandi]

Great Job. Do you have some code associated with the videos?

[sujalkhatiwada]

Please make a MVC based OOP Ecommerce, also API development in PHP OOP MVC will be helpful, a real life project for API development is something interesting topic. with case study on how to architect API.

[expresscoding]

Hello sir, It would be a great help if you make some advanced OOP proejct like E-commerce or POS system, thank you. 😊

[nasrizufar]

Hi there, im getting error on contact site "Either GD PHP extension with FreeType support or ImageMagick PHP extension with PNG support is required." How do i fix it?

[Raezon_]

sir i have a question well if you can add a supplementary video on your playlist with the name of why yii i've heard that yii can't use composer and use an archive file in addition that yii is Lts (long time support) and i've heard also that the system of routing is dynamically so you can do the routing as laravel and you do it by default not sure about this information so sir if you can do a video comparative of 3 min between laravel symphony and yii i will be so great full and thank you again for this whole playlist

[nyke]

Hey Codeholic, I’m using php Storm as well but your IDE configuration seems to be slightly different to mine. Is it maybe possible to get yours? It would be great if you could share a download link 😊

[chandrasekharbabu]

Yedhuti manishi yelaantivaado yelaa thelusthundhi/

[theeasytutor]

I was big fan of it, but not now Just shifted to Laravel as *YII is CHINESE FRAMEWORK: SOURCE WIKIPEDIA*