Yii2 useful resources

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A curated list of awesome bookmarks, packages, tutorials, videos and other cool resources from the Yii2 ecosystem.

Inspired by hiraggude/awesome-laravel

Table of Contents

• Essentials
• Code Snippets
• Packages
• Popular Packages
• Development Setup
• Application Hosting
• Application Deployment
• Articles, Tutorials, Blogs, etc.
• Videos
• Conferences
• Books
• Starter Projects
• Codebases for Reference
• Content Management Systems
• Newsletters
• Podcasts
• Community
• Jobs
• Hosted Development Tools
• Miscellaneous

Essentials

• Yii Framework
• Yii Framework 2l Documentation
• Yii Framework API Reference

Code Snippets

• Yii2 Migration cheat sheet

Packages

• Packagist
• Packalyst
• Cartalyst

Popular Packages

This is a list of well-documented, tested packages that are frequently used in Yii projects. If you're looking for an exhaustive list of PHP packages, then check out the Package Repositories mentioned above.

Search

• Zend Lucene advanced search component for Yii2
• Yii2 Elastic Search - Elasticsearch Query and ActiveRecord for Yii 2

User Management

• Flexible user registration and authentication module for Yii2

APIs

• ReSTFUL - Yii2 advanced template with RESTful API setup
• REST Template - Yii2 REST API template

Tasks, Commands and Scheduling

• Scheduling - Scheduling extension for Yii2 framework
• Cronjobs - Yii2 Cron Job

Payments

• Paypal - PayPal payment extension for the Yii2

Generators

• [Yii 2 Gii Extension] (https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-gii) - This extension provides a Web-based code generator, called Gii, for Yii framework 2.0 applications.
• [Yii 2 Framework Code Generator Gii on Steroids] (https://github.com/schmunk42/yii2-giiant) - Giiant is an extended code-generator for models and CRUDs, based upon Gii (Yii 2.0 Framework).
• [Yii 2 Migration Generator] (https://github.com/michael-vostrikov/yii2-migration-generator) - Migration generator for Gii. Generates migration file for the specified database table.

Third-party Service Integration

• Yii Algolia - Algolia API bridge
• Yii Analytics - add Universal Analytics tracking in your Yii2 application
• Yii Social - A Yii2 module for embedding social plugins and widgets
• Yii-elfinder
• [Embedded (Nested) Models Extension for Yii 2] (https://github.com/yii2tech/embedded) This extension provides support for embedded (nested) models usage in Yii2. In particular it allows working with sub-documents in MongoDB and ElasticSearch.

Development Setup

• Vagrant Box
• Vagrant Box
• Yii2 Dockerized
• Yii2 Basic Application Dockerized

Books

• Yii 2.0 Cookbook
• [The Definitive Guide to Yii 2.0] (https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/docs/guide/README.md)

Articles, Tutorials, Blogs, etc.

• Yii 2.0 Articles

Starter Projects

• yii2-starter-kit
• Yii2 File storage and upload kit
• Yii2-Start demo
• Auth manager for Yii2 (RBAC Manager)

Codebases for Reference

• manageyourteam - Project management application

Content Management Systems

• Easyiicms
• YEE CMS
• Skeeks
• dotplant

Community

• Yii Framework Forum
• Gitter
• IRC Channel
• Web Based IRC Channel
• WIKI
• StackOverflow
• Twitter
• Google+
• Reddit
• Quora
• LinkedIn

Meetups

• Meetups

Jobs

• Upwork
• Jobfusion

Contributing

Found an awesome package, blog, video etc.? Send me a pull request!