TEACHING WEB
PROGRAMMING USING THE YII
FRAMEWORK AT CAJON HIGH
SCHOOL
Chad Easton
Rosemarie Reed
Arturo I Concepcion
David A Turner
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
Creating a model of our structure (MySQL Workbench)
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
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
LAND AND RESOURCES
We need land which will support our structure’s needs (Uniform Sever)
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)
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
BUILDING TOOLS
The essential supporting structure (Yii Framework)
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.
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
BUILDING TOOLS
Adding the electrical wiring (PHPMyAdmin)
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
BUILDING TOOLS
Turning on the electricity (Gii Code Generator)
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.
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
BUILDING TOOLS
Customizing the interior design (NetBeans IDE)
Using NetBeans IDE to edit the code generated by Gii, or create their
own pages within the application.
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
CONSTRUCTION CREW
Creating a Blueprint >> Land and Resources >> Building Tools >> Construction Crews
QUESTIONS?