Yii 2 Basic Project Template ¶

1. DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
2. REQUIREMENTS
3. INSTALLATION
4. CONFIGURATION
5. TESTING

Yii 2 Basic Project Template is a skeleton Yii 2 application best for rapidly creating small projects.

This is a fork of the offifcial Yii 2 Basic Project Template.

The template contains the basic features including user login/logout and a contact page. It includes all commonly used configurations that would allow you to focus on adding new features to your application.

These modules are included:

• raoul2000/yii2-bootswatch-asset: Use Bootswatch theme in your Yii application with minimum effort
• dektrium/user: Flexible user registration and authentication module for Yii2
• dektrium/rbac: RBAC management module for Yii2
• nemmo/yii2-attachments: Extension for file uploading and attaching to the models
• bizley/migration: Migration generator for Yii 2
• yii2mod/yii2-settings: Yii2 Settings Module
• thrieu/yii2-grid-view-state: Save filters from GridView to session, keep the filter state between pages.

Also it contains a Lookups module and CRUD to manage gridview saved filters.

There are Gii templates for ActiveRecored models and CRUD pages.

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE ¶

  assets/             contains assets definition
  commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
  config/             contains application configurations
  controllers/        contains Web controller classes
  data/               contains folders for database backups and uploaded files/attachments
  mail/               contains view files for e-mails
  models/             contains model classes
  modules/            contains application modules, currently that are `backuprestore` and `lookup`
  migrations/         contains database migrations to create tables needed
  myTemplates/        contains gii templates for models and CRUD pages
  rbac/               contains an example rule `Author` 
  runtime/            contains files generated during runtime
  tests/              contains various tests for the basic application
  vendor/             contains dependent 3rd-party packages
  views/              contains view files for the Web application
  web/                contains the entry script and Web resources
  widgets/            contains widhets, currently `Alert` and `GridView`

REQUIREMENTS ¶

The minimum requirement by this project template that your Web server supports PHP 5.4.0.

INSTALLATION ¶

• see separate file INSTALL.md

CONFIGURATION ¶

• see separate file INSTALL.md

TESTING ¶

Tests are located in tests directory. They are developed with Codeception PHP Testing Framework. By default there are 3 test suites:

• unit
• functional
• acceptance

Tests can be executed by running

vendor/bin/codecept run

The command above will execute unit and functional tests. Unit tests are testing the system components, while functional tests are for testing user interaction. Acceptance tests are disabled by default as they require additional setup since they perform testing in real browser.

Running acceptance tests ¶

To execute acceptance tests do the following:

1. Rename tests/acceptance.suite.yml.example to tests/acceptance.suite.yml to enable suite configuration

2. Replace codeception/base package in composer.json with codeception/codeception to install full featured version of Codeception

3. Update dependencies with Composer

   composer update

4. Download Selenium Server and launch it:

   java -jar ~/selenium-server-standalone-x.xx.x.jar

   In case of using Selenium Server 3.0 with Firefox browser since v48 or Google Chrome since v53 you must download GeckoDriver or ChromeDriver and launch Selenium with it:

   ` # for Firefox java -jar -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=~/geckodriver ~/selenium-server-standalone-3.xx.x.jar

   # for Google Chrome java -jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=~/chromedriver ~/selenium-server-standalone-3.xx.x.jar `

   As an alternative way you can use already configured Docker container with older versions of Selenium and Firefox:

   docker run --net=host selenium/standalone-firefox:2.53.0

5. (Optional) Create yii2_basic_tests database and update it by applying migrations if you have them.

   tests/bin/yii migrate
   

   The database configuration can be found at config/test_db.php.

1. Start web server:

   tests/bin/yii serve

2. Now you can run all available tests

   # run all available tests
   vendor/bin/codecept run
   
   # run acceptance tests
   vendor/bin/codecept run acceptance
   
   # run only unit and functional tests
   vendor/bin/codecept run unit,functional
   

Code coverage support ¶

By default, code coverage is disabled in codeception.yml configuration file, you should uncomment needed rows to be able to collect code coverage. You can run your tests and collect coverage with the following command:

#collect coverage for all tests
vendor/bin/codecept run -- --coverage-html --coverage-xml

#collect coverage only for unit tests
vendor/bin/codecept run unit -- --coverage-html --coverage-xml

#collect coverage for unit and functional tests
vendor/bin/codecept run functional,unit -- --coverage-html --coverage-xml

You can see code coverage output under the tests/_output directory.