A custom yii project template derived from yiisoft/yii2-app-basic that's supposed to save you the time of adding authentication to a project created using the basic template.

All of the authentication code is borrowed directly from the advanced template which at first glance seems like the better option until you consider that most of the time you're not going to need separate backend and frontend components.

You're eventually going to trim it down e.g deleting the backend folder, moving files from the common folder to the frontend component and start updating the namespaces at which point you will have broken all the unit tests and maybe contemplating rage quitting. Bit dramatic but yeah it happens, especially if it's your first time with yii.

• Ensure you have a web server with php >=5.4.0 installed
• Download and extract archive:

wget https://github.com/nkmathew/yii2-app-basic-with-db/archive/master.zip -O master.zip
7z x master.zip
rm master.zip

• Rename the resulting folder, yii2-app-basic-with-db-master to your project name, e.g my-web-app
• cd my-web-app
• Install dependencies with composer: composer install --prefer-dist
• Create the database:

CREATE DATABASE `my_web_app` /*!40100 COLLATE 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci' */

• Update the database name in config/db.php together with the username and password if not the default root user.

return [
    'class' => 'yii\db\Connection',
    'dsn' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=my_web_app',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'charset' => 'utf8',
];

• Create user tables by running yii migrate
• Change the secret cookie validation key in config/web.php to some random string. You can generate the string with something like uuidgen available in Linux natively and through Cygwin in Windows:

'request' => [
    // !!! insert a secret key in the following (if it is empty) - this is required
    // by cookie validation
    'cookieValidationKey' => '868c6cbe-8541-4d84-9a61-2585cbc88cb7',
],

• Put the project in version control: git init
• Commit all the files:

git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"

• You can now do your customizations and addition of new functionality after which you can run a server with yii serve while still in the root folder or with php -S localhost:8080 if in the web folder
• Refer to tests/README.md for information on running test suites

• Models, controllers, view layouts and unit tests all replaced with those from the advanced template
• Pretty urls enabled
• Some subjective code fromatting applied:
  • Empty lines separating statements removed
  • Indentation of elements within body, html and head tags, cause why not
  • Optimizing imports(done by PhpStorm)

 assets/             contains assets definition
 commands/           contains console commands (controllers)
 config/             contains application configurations
 controllers/        contains Web controller classes
 mail/               contains view files for e-mails
 migrations/         contains database migrations
 models/             contains model classes
 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 frontend widgets