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Instant Yii 1.1 Application Development Starter
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Instant Yii 1.1 Application Development Starter

by Jacob Mumm
June 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
62 pages
1h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installation

Yii is a web application framework, so the first thing you need is a web server. Yii is capable of running on most common HTTP servers, but the platform of choice for project maintainers and testers is Apache on Linux. NGINX is also a good choice, and you can also run Yii on Windows servers with Apache or Microsoft's IIS server.

All instructions in this section assume the Linux (or Mac OS) environment with an Apache server.

Server requirements

As Yii is a PHP framework, the main dependency of Yii is PHP (version 5.1.0 or higher). Yii also makes use of a few key PHP extensions. These include PDO for MySQL or PostgreSQL, the DOM extension, Mcrypt for security, SOAP, and GD for image processing. For data caching, it requires either Memcache, ...

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