Awesome Yii 2 Framework

A curated list of awesome Yii Framework extensions, tutorials and other nice things. Inspired by awesome-php and other awesome lists.

Contents

• Essentials
• Tutorials
• Videos
• Made With Yii 2
• Extensions
• Tools and integrations
• Books
• Community
• Contributing

Essentials

• Yii 2 Homepage
• Official community
• Installation
• Documentation
• Guide
• GitHub Repository
• YiiFeed news

Tutorials

• The definive guide to Yii 2: HTML, PDF (en), PDF (ru) (work in progress).
• Try Yii 2 - Yii 2 online playground.
• How to Program With Yii 2: Getting Started - Tutsplus tutorial for Yii 2 beginners.
• Yii 2 PAjax Tutorial
• How to Program With Yii2: Using the Advanced Application Template
• Yii 2 Tutorials - Collection of Yii 2 tutorials.
• Yii 2 Cookbook
• Yii 2 - Start from scratch - Yii 2 tutorial from yiiframework.com.
• Learn Yii 2 - Blog posts for Yii 2 beginners.

Project structure examples

• Official basic and advanced structures. Code.
• Minimal Application Template by samdark
• Practical Application Template by kartik-v (and its variations "A" and "B").
• Demo blog on AngularJS with server-side Yii 2 Rest API by githubjeka
• Yii 2 Starter Kit by trntv

Videos

• Learning Yii 2
• Mastering Yii 2
• Intro to Yii 2 (Lynda.com)
• Rapid web application development using Yii 2
• Yii 2 Application Development Solutions

Made with Yii 2

• YiiPowered.com - Projects built on Yii framework. Anyone can add a project.
• HumHub - The flexible Open Source Social Network Kit.
• Zurmo - Open Source Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
• Stay - Travel recommendations by qualified locals.
• Piclyf - Bring your profile picture to life.
• dotPlant - Open-source E-Commerce CMS based on Yii 2 made by DevGroup.ru.
• LUYA - The Yii 2 CMS to build beautiful and easy editable websites pretty fast.
• EASYII CMS - Control panel and tools.
• Phundament - Universal HTML5 Application Boilerplates.
• Craft 3 - Craft is a content-first CMS that aims to make life enjoyable for developers and content managers alike.
• Podium - Forum engine made with Yii.

Extensions

Widgets / GUI

• kartik-v/yii2-widgets - Collection of useful widgets.
• Krajee Yii Extensions - Collection of extensions & modules.
• Lepture Markdown editor - Markdown editor that you really want.
• Yii 2 jsTree Component - jsTree is jquery plugin, that provides interactive trees.
• yii2-notification-wrapper - Notification wrapper module renders a message from session flash (with ajax, pjax support and etc.) through Growl, Noty, Toastr and more libraries.

Social

• kartik-v/yii2-social - Module for embedding social plugins and widgets.
• Kudos - Widget for Svbtle style Kudos.

Geo / Maps

• 2amigos/yii2-leaflet-library - Extension library to display interactive maps with Leaflet.
• amstr1k/yii2-geography - Extension to work with cities and countries from the database.
• Geonames - GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eleven million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

Database

• yii2-arangodb - ArangoDB integration for the Yii 2: Connection, Query, ActiveRecord, Migrations.
• 2amigos/yii2-taggable-behavior - Behavior functions for tagging.
• 2amigos/yii2-translateable-behavior - Handles ActiveRecord's attribute translations.
• Yii 2 Redis - This extension provides the redis key-value store support for Yii 2.
• Yii 2 MongoDB - Yii 2 MongoDB extension.

Content

• yii2-plugins-system - Plugins system module with event manager and shortcodes as WordPress.

Other

• Phundament 4 - Dockerized PHP Application Template for Yii.
• 2amigos/yii2-file-upload-widget - Handles a BlueImp jQuery File Upload plugin.
• 2amigos/yii2-qrcode-helper - Helper allows you to render QrCode.
• Foundationize - Yii 2 with Foundation 6.
• Yii2 Dashboard - Create and manage dashboards using custom layouts and panels.
• monitorbacklinks/yii2-wordpress - Component for integration with Wordpress CMS via XML-RPC API.

Tools and integrations

• Yii 2 Inspections for PhpStorm / IntelliJ IDEA
• Yii 2 Support for PhpStorm / IntelliJ IDEA

Books

• Yii 2 Cookbook by Alexander Makarov and community
• "How To Create Single Page Application in minutes! with AngularJs 1.3 and Yii 2 by Hafid Mukhlasin"
• "Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP by Mark Safronov"
• Larry Ulman Yii book.
• Yii 2 Application Development Cookbook - Third Edition
• Yii 2 For Begineers by Bill Keck
• Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP by Mark Safronov, Jeffrey Winesett
• Mastering Yii by Charles R. Portwood II
• Yii 2 by Example by Fabrizio Caldarelli
• Learning Yii Testing by Matteo Pescarin

Community

• Stack Overflow - Questions and answers on Stack Overflow about Yii.
• My Yii - Yii Framework Community web is powerful source of information which helps you find and share tips and tricks how to create, manage and enhance your awesome Yii applications.
• Yii 2 Forum - The official Yii 2 Forum.
• LinkedIn - Yii 2 LinkedIn group.
• Twitter - Yii frameworks Twitter account.
• yiiframework.ru - Russian-speaking Yii 2 community.
• Slack - Community in Slack.

Contributing

Found an awesome package, article, blog, video or tutorial? Create a pull request! Just make sure to follow these contribution guidelines.

Join the discussion!

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