Ways to install Yii 2 Advance framework

Yii 2 Framework development is known for its extremely high-performance PHP based applications that are best
recommended for developing web 2.0 applications. Yii Framework Development is highly engrossed with its rich
programming features such as MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching techniques, high authentication
methodologies, role-based access controlling power, scaffolding systems and testing methods.

Any professional level PHP development company will always prefer to hire Yii 2 developer who is highly skilled to
make their business flourish more than others. Before hiring any Yii 2 developer, an employer should judge technical
skills of Yii 2 developers to easily work with Yii PHP framework so that they have full capability to transform every
complex project into simpler ones by simultaneously meeting the requirements of clients globally.

Benefits of Hiring Yii PHP framework:

Dedicated
Experienced enough to transform complex projects into simpler ones
Well versed with MVC structure
Save your project cost upto 60%
Free to work with zero maintenance cost
Transparent approach to ensure smooth flow
Avail constant communication through email, Skypee, phone, IM

Installing Yii 2 Framework

Well there are various methods of installing Yii 2 framework, and that totally depends upon the environment you are
working with:

Installing Yii2 framework via Composer can easily be done by getting access to
getcomposer.com.

Installing Yii 2 framework on Linux or on Mac OS X, needs to run the following below
mentioned command:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

On Windows, one will get to run Composer-Setup.exe file.

Further referring to the Composer Documentation process will help you deal with any kind of problems that
are encountered by your system and you can further learn more about Composer usage.

One needs to update their Composer set-up file on regular basis by running composer self-update
command.

With Composer installed, Yii 2 framework can easily be executed with the following commands under a Webaccessible folder:
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1.1"

Installs composer asset plug-ins to allow manage bower ans npm package dependencies via
composer. This command can be run once for all.

composer create-project --prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

This command installs Yii in a directory named basic and lets you choose a different directory name
that you want.

At the time of installation, Composer might ask for Github login credentials because Composer has
numerous number of API rate-limit to retrieve various dependent package information from Github.
Installing all the latest development version of Yii 2 framework, uses the following command to add
stability option:
composer create-project --prefer-dist --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic
basic

Any development version of Yii 2 framework should not be used for production to avoid its normal execution
process.

Installing Yii 2 framework from an Archive File

Here are the following three Yii 2 framework installation steps from an archive files:

1. Download your archive file from yiiframework.com

2. Unzip the downloaded file to your Web-accessible folder.
3. Modify the config/web.php file by placing a secret key for the cookieValidationKey configuration
item. This can be done automatically while you are installing Yii 2 framework using Composer:
4. // !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is
required by cookie validation
'cookieValidationKey' => 'enter your secret key here',

You can access other installation modes as well:

All the above installation instructions described shows how to proceed with Yii 2 framework to enable a proper
creation of the basic web applications easily that will work as an out of the box idea. This approach is extremely useful
at initial level for developing most of the web application projects, whether it is small or big. Every beginner of-course
needs to start with suitable working mode if you just at beginner level who is learning Yii 2 framework.
Working with other various Yii 2 framework installation process is described below:
Craving to install Yii 2 core framework and its almost like building an entire application from scratch, where
you are suppose to follow the guidance of Yii 2 framework to develop applications from the scratch.
If you want to start with a more sophisticated application, well its always better to team up with development
environments to follow an easy installation process
How you will verify that Yii 2 installed framework is running properly?
After installation is done, either configure your web server or prefer working with built-in PHP web servers by running
the following console command while in the project web directory:
php yii serve
Note: By default the HTTP-server will listen to port 8080. However if that port is already in use or you
wish to serve multiple applications this way, you might want to specify what port to use. Just add the
--port argument:
php yii serve --port=8888
You can use your browser to access the installed Yii application with the following URL:
http://localhost/