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Agile Web Application
Development with Yii 1.1
and PHP5

Fast-track your web application development by
harnessing the power of the Yii PHP Framework

Jeffery Winesett

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1
and PHP5
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First published: August 2010
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Credits
Author
Jeffery Winesett
Reviewers
Imre Mehesz

Editorial Team Leader
Aanchal Kumar
Project Team Leader
PriyaMukherji

Jonah Turnquist
Kyle Ferreira
Acquisition Editor
Usha Iyer
Development Editors
Dhwani Devater
Reshma Sundaresan
Technical Editors
Aditya Belpathak
Hyacintha D'Souza
Indexer
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Project Coordinator
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Proofreader
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Graphics
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Cover Work
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About the Author
JefferyWinesett is the director of software engineering and application

development at Control Group Inc., a New York based consulting firm specializing
in delivering technology for big ideas. He has spent the last five of his twelve years
of software development focused on delivering large-scale PHP-based applications.
Jeffery also writes articles on the topics of PHP, web application frameworks, andsoftware development. He has enjoyed being a Yii evangelist since its early
alpha version.
I'd like to thank all of the technical reviewers, editors, and
staff at Packt for their fantastic contributions, suggestions, and
improvements. I'd like to thank Qiang Xue and the entire Yii
Framework developer team for creating and maintaining this
brilliant framework. Ryan Trammel at Scissortaildesign for his
attention to detail and CSS assistance. My lovely wife Tiffany, for
her endless patience throughout this project and Lemmy and Lucie
for providing me with an endless supply of sunshine.

About the Reviewers
Imre Mehesz is a long-time open source and PHP enthusiast. He started with

the classic LAMP stack around 2000 and grew into the MVC world with CakePHP,
ZendFramework, andnow Yii. He brought Yii into his professional life and runs
the Yii Radio podcast.
I would like to thank Qiang for creating this framework, and my
wife who puts up with my craziness for open source development.

Jonah Turnquist is a self-taught web developer and a college student. He is a
part of the developer team for the Yii Framework, mainly contributing to the official
extension library,Zii. Meanwhile, he is attending a junior college in California, and
he is on his way to being transferred to a four year degree in college in the Fall of
2010. He is studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Kyle Ferreira is a student at the University of Ontario, Institute of Technology

taking a four year degree in IT (BIT) under Network Security. As a student, he has
spent...