TEACHING WEB PROGRAMMING USING THE YII FRAMEWORK AT CAJON

HIGH SCHOOLChad Easton

Rosemarie Reed

Arturo I Concepcion

David A Turner

PHP MyS

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Yii XHTML

CONTENTS History Why Teach the Yii Framework Overview of the Tools Used Creating a Blueprint Land and Resources Building Tools Construction Crew

HISTORY

Began initial planning for project summer of 2010 During Fall 2010 and Winter 2010 Quarters I taught:

XHTML CSS PHP Object Oriented Programming with PHP MySQL

WHY TEACH THE YII FRAMEWORK

Yii is one of the newest and most praised framework Yii uses the newest techniques Yii is modeled after other popular frameworks Yii incorporates the use of Object Oriented Programing Database tables are converted to Object Models It would be challenging

OVERVIEW OF THE TOOLS USED

MySQL Workbench UniformServer Yii Framework Yii’s Gii Code Generator PHPMyAdmin NetBeans IDE

CREATING A BLUEPRINT

Example ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram) Diagram Model of our

database 8 tables/objects (User,

news_topic, news, news_comment, etc…)

Connecting lines from table to table display the relationship between them

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Creating a model of our structure (MySQL Workbench)

LAND AND RESOURCES

Uniform Sever contains a variety of programs and services supported by Microsoft Windows XP – Windows 7 and Operates from a single drive, such as a flash drive, for a portable development environment. Some of these programs and services include: Apache Webserver (Supports the PHP programming

language), MySQL Database, and PHPMyAdmin (a web application, developed in PHP, which

runs in a web browser and contains a Graphical User Interface for managing MySQL databases)

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We need land which will support our structure’s needs (Uniform Sever)

BUILDING TOOLS

Yii Framework is a fairly new framework which is a free, open-source Web application framework written in PHP5, that promotes clean, DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product.

Yii is an acronym for Yes It Is.

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The essential supporting structure (Yii Framework)

BUILDING TOOLS

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Adding the electrical wiring (PHPMyAdmin)

BUILDING TOOLS

Gii is a tool, included in the Yii framework, which will generate code based off of the database model.

This code includes web pages for: viewing data, deleting data, updating data, and adding new data

in the existing tables in our database.

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Turning on the electricity (Gii Code Generator)

BUILDING TOOLS

Using NetBeans IDE to edit the code generated by Gii, or create their own pages within the application.

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Customizing the interior design (NetBeans IDE)

CONSTRUCTION CREW

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QUESTIONS?