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Blog based on Yii 2 framework

Application is a simple blog website based on Yii2 Advanced Project Template

Functionality:

Admin section

  1. Create\Edit\Hide\Show\Delete posts.
  2. Create\Edit\Delete tags.
  3. Hide\Show\Delete comments.

Frontend

  1. Searching posts by tags.
  2. View post.
  3. Adding comments.
  4. Sending notifications about comments to page admin.
  5. Contact form.

Console

  1. Creating account for admin.

Requirements

  1. PHP > 5.6
  2. Composer

Screenshots

main-page post-update post-content admin-panel-posts-list

Installation

1. Application

  1. Clone or download repository to any folder on your web server.

  2. Inside root folder run the application initialization command.

    php init --env=Production --overwrite=All

  3. Inside root folder install required composer dependencies.

    composer update

2. Database

  1. Log to your database and create database.

    CREATE SCHEMA `database_name`;

  2. Run following migrations inside root folder using terminal:

    php yii migrate
php yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/dektrium/yii2-user/migrations

3. Configuration

  1. Set your database connection by adjust settings under components['db'] key in your common/config/main-local.php file.

  2. Set mailer configuration in components['mailer'] key in your frontend/config/main-local.php file. Example:

    'components' => [
    'mailer' => [
        'class' => 'yii\swiftmailer\Mailer',
        'viewPath' => '@frontend/mail',
        'transport' => [
            'class' => 'Swift_SmtpTransport',
            'host' => 'smtp.gmail.com',
            'username' => '[email protected]',
            'password' => 'password',
            'port' => '587',
            'encryption' => 'tls',
        ],
        'useFileTransport' => false,
    ],
]

  3. Create admin account.

    php yii user/create <email> <user_name> <password>

4. Setup web server

  1. Add following host configuration to your apache host file and adjust Directory, DocumentRoot and ServerName

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName blog.com
    DocumentRoot /path-to/root/folder/blog
    <Directory /path-to/root/folder/blog>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        DirectoryIndex index.php
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

  2. Change the hosts file to point the domain to your server.

    • for Windows: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
    • for Linux: /etc/hosts

    Add the following line:

    127.0.0.1   blog

5. Run application:

  1. Noww you can run blog site using following urls:

    • for frontend:
    http://blog
    • admin section
    http://blog/admin

If you have any problems visit Yii2 Documentation or contact with me.