In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Yii books and tutorials can help fill your brain this June and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Mastering Yii (2016)
- Yii Application Development Cookbook (2016)
- Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook (2011)
- Web Application Development with Yii and PHP (2012)
- Learning Yii Testing (2015)
- Yii Application Development Cookbook (2013)
- Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP (2014)
- Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 (2010)
- Yii Rapid App Development Hotshot (2012)
- Yii Project Blueprints (2014)
- Interactive Storytelling: Third Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling… (2010)
- Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to (2013)
Mastering Yii (2016)
The successor of Yii Framework 1.1, Yii2 is a complete rewrite of Yii Framework, one of the most popular PHP 5 frameworks for making modern web applications. The update embraces the best practices and protocols established with newer versions of PHP, while still maintaining the simple, fast, and extendable behavior found in its predecessor.
Author(s): Charles R. Portwood II
Yii Application Development Cookbook (2016)
Yii is a free, open source web application development framework written in PHP5 that promotes clean DRY design and encourages rapid development. It works to streamline your application development time and helps to ensure an extremely efficient, extensible, and maintainable end product. Being extremely performance optimized, Yii is a perfect choice for any size project. However, it has been built with sophisticated, enterprise applications in mind.
Author(s): Andrew Bogdanov, Dmitry Eliseev
Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook (2011)
Over 80 recipes to help you master using the Yii PHP framework Learn to use Yii more efficiently through plentiful Yii recipes on diverse topics Make the most efficient use of your controller and views and reuse them Automate error tracking and understand the Yii log and stack trace Full of practically useful solutions and concepts that you can use in your application, with clearly explained code and all the necessary screenshots In Detail When Alex told me he was about to write a Yii cookbook a…
Author(s): Alexander Makarov
Web Application Development with Yii and PHP (2012)
For PHP programmers with a yearning to add modernity and sophistication to their web applications, this book will be a revelation. A step-by-step tutorial to Yii, it talks you through the development of a complete real-world application. This book is a step by step tutorial in developing a real-world application using the incremental and iterative approach to software development. You learn about agile software development by leaning on the agile nature of the Yii application development framework.
Author(s): Jeffrey Winesett
Learning Yii Testing (2015)
Embrace 360-degree testing on your Yii 2 projects using Codeception. Developers who have a solid pre-existing knowledge of Yii’s core concepts will find this book an ideal introduction to learning to write tests using Yii 2’s tools. You’ll learn to create faster and more reliable applications with less time and effort. Testing your application often and early is a key consideration in modern web development.
Author(s): Matteo Pescarin
Yii Application Development Cookbook (2013)
This book is the perfect way to add the capabilities of Yii to your PHP5 development skills. Dealing with practical solutions through real-life recipes and screenshots, it enables you to write applications more efficiently. The Yii framework is a rapidly growing PHP5 MVC framework often referred to as Rails for PHP. It has already become a solid base for many exciting web applications such as Stay.com and can be a good base for your developments, too.
Author(s): Alexander Makarov
Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP (2014)
Fast-track your web application development using the new generation Yii PHP framework. This book is for professional PHP developers who wish to master the powerful Yii 2 application framework. It is assumed that you have knowledge of object-oriented programming. The previous version of the Yii framework is only briefly mentioned, but it’ll be even easier to grasp Yii 2 with the knowledge of Yii 1.1.x. Yii is a high performance PHP framework used for rapid web
Author(s): Mark Safronov, Jeffrey Winesett
Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 (2010)
For PHP developers who know object-oriented programming, this book is the fast track to learning the Yii framework. It takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete real-world application – teaching by practice rather than theory.
Author(s): Jeffrey Winesett
Yii Rapid App Development Hotshot (2012)
Written for intermediate to advanced PHP programmers, this project-based book is the perfect way to get to grips with Yii and rapidly accelerate your web application development times. Yii is a high performance PHP framework for rapid web application development. It is well designed, well supported, easy to learn, and easy to maintain. If you are beginning to learn web development or are a seasoned programmer with demanding clients, learning Yii will benefit your projects and career.
Author(s): Lauren J. O’Meara, James R. Hamilton III
Yii Project Blueprints (2014)
From conception to production, learn how to develop real-world applications with the Yii framework. This book is for intermediate-to-advanced level Yii developers who want to master the Yii framework and develop real-world applications. You should have experience of working with Yii, PHP 5, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The Yii framework is a high-performance, fast, open source, and a rapid development PHP framework that can be used to develop modern web applications.
Author(s): Charles R. Portwood II
Interactive Storytelling: Third Joint Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling… (2010)
speakers supported the inter-disciplinaryrangeof ICIDS 2010 and the fields natural ties between academic research, the arts and industry.
Author(s): Ruth Aylett, Mei Yii Lim
Instant Building Multi-Page Forms with Yii How-to (2013)
Learn to create multi-page AJAX enabled forms using Yii with this book and ebook. Yii is a high-performance PHP framework for rapid web application development. It is well-designed, well-supported, easy to learn, and easy to maintain. Forms are the basic method used to collect information on the Internet, and in cases like user registration and payment process, theres a lot of data to be presented and the lists can get lengthy.
Author(s): Uday Sawant
You might also be interested in: C++, GPS, VOIP, Sitecore, SQL, Symfony, Flexbox, Xamarin, Shopify, Zend Books.
Best Books to Learn YII
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Yii books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Mastering Yii
Author(s): Charles R. Portwood II
ID: 1571905, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2016, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
Yii Application Development Cookbook
Author(s): Andrey Bogdanov, Dmitry Eliseev
ID: 1578712, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2016, Size: 10 Mb, Format: pdf
Yii2 Application Development Cookbook
Author(s): Alexander Makarov, ; Bogdanov, Andrew; Dmitry Eliseev
ID: 2187650, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: 2016, Size: 5 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.