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Yii classes and widgets

Yii classes and widgets

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Yii classes and widgets

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- [Instructor] Yii includes a lot of PHP classes that can not only help with implementing Yii's architecture and elements, but it also can help to perform other tasks like authentication, caching and a number of other things. Let's take a look at what Yii can do for us. I'm currently looking at the Guide to Yii 2.0, and this is the docs that are located directly from the Yiiframework.com website. There are a few things to see here when you're looking at these documentations. We, of course, have all the classes and things to support our application structure, Controllers, Models, et cetera. We have Security, which can handle authentication. We have some tools for RESTful web development. We have some debuggers, and also, a number of widgets we can use, and widgets are used specifically for user interface elements. One of the nice things that Yii has done is they haven't made a lot of changes to their core framework. However, through their Extensions API, they've been able to update and…

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