To take the benefits of pretty urls in Yii, please follow the below guidelines:

1) Open “main.php” configuration file of Yii.

It is located under your_application/protected/config/ folder

2) Paste the below lines in  “components” array

‘urlManager’=>array(‘urlFormat’=>’path’, ‘showScriptName’=>false,),

3) Create “.htaccess” file in your application where “index.php” file is located

Add following lines to “.htaccess” file :

Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php

4) If your application is not showing pretty urls, then check whether your Apache configuration file i.e httpd.conf has the following module :

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Remove “;” semicolon preceding the above line.

Save and restart the Apache server

The versions are as follows:

Operating System : Windows XP Professional Version 2002 , Service Pack 2

Apache : 2.2.8

PHP : 5.2.6

MYSQL : 5.0.51b

Yii : 1.1.0 (January 10 2010)

Follow the following steps for installation:

1) Click on “Start”

2) goto “My Computer”

3) Right Click and select Properties

4) You will see “System Properties” window

5)  Select “Advanced”tab

6) In “Advanced” tab, click on “Environment Variables”

7) Select “Path” in “System Variables” section

Click on “Edit” on selevtion “Path” in “System Variables” section

9) “Edit System Varibale” window will appear with “Variable name” and “Variable value” fields

10)  Enter “C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6″ at the end without double quotes.

11)  Click on OK, OK and OK.

13) Click on Start > Run > cmd

14) It will take you to the command prompt

15) C:\>cd wamp\www

16) C:\wamp\www>mkdir myYii  (myYii is the name of the application you want)

17) C:\wamp\www>cd yii\framework

18) C:\wamp\www\yii\framework> yiic webapp c:\wamp\www\myYii
Create a Web application under ‘C:\wamp\www\myYii’? [Yes|No] y
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/assets
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/css
generate css/bg.gif
generate css/form.css
generate css/ie.css
generate css/main.css
generate css/print.css
generate css/screen.css
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/images
generate index-test.php
generate index.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected
generate protected/.htaccess
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/commands
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/commands/shell
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/components
generate protected/components/Controller.php
generate protected/components/UserIdentity.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/config
generate protected/config/console.php
generate protected/config/main.php
generate protected/config/test.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/controllers
generate protected/controllers/SiteController.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/data
generate protected/data/schema.mysql.sql
generate protected/data/schema.sqlite.sql
generate protected/data/testdrive.db
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/extensions
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/messages
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/models
generate protected/models/ContactForm.php
generate protected/models/LoginForm.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/runtime
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/tests
generate protected/tests/bootstrap.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/tests/fixtures
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/tests/functional
generate protected/tests/functional/SiteTest.php
generate protected/tests/phpunit.xml
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/tests/report
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/tests/unit
generate protected/tests/WebTestCase.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/views
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/views/layouts
generate protected/views/layouts/main.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/views/site
generate protected/views/site/contact.php
generate protected/views/site/error.php
generate protected/views/site/index.php
generate protected/views/site/login.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/protected/views/site/pages
generate protected/views/site/pages/about.php
generate protected/yiic
generate protected/yiic.bat
generate protected/yiic.php
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/themes
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/themes/classic
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/themes/classic/views
generate themes/classic/views/.htaccess
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/themes/classic/views/layouts
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/themes/classic/views/site
mkdir C:/wamp/www/myYii/themes/classic/views/system

Your application has been created successfully under C:\wamp\www\myYii.

Thats all. You are ready to use your application by accessing the URL : http://localhost/myYii/

Soon it will gain popularity as it has many features such as :

• MVC design pattern
• DAO and Active Record
• jQuery-based JavaScript support
• I18N and L10N
• Page, fragment and data caching
• Error handling and logging
• Theming
• Web services
• Console applications
• Authentication and authorization
• Web 2.0 widgets
• Form input and validation

Following are the Performance comparison :

• Yii: 673 requests/second
• CodeIgniter: 206 requests/second
• Zend: 83 requests/second
• CakePHP: 79 requests/second
• Prado: 75 requests/second
• Symfony: 50 requests/second

People who are interested in using the frameworks should definitely try this

To know more about this framework, follow the given link:

http://www.yiiframework.com/

The project is hosted on Godaddy’s shared linux hosting.

Shared linux hosting gives us php.ini file.

In that “set allow_url_fopen = on “.

By default it is off.

The example which GoDaddy gives to set the path of the cron job script is as follows:

/web/cgi-bin/php5 “$HOME/html/cron/yourscript.php”

But unfortunately, the above example does not work.

To make it work, remove “5″ from php5 and remove the double quotes as follows:

/web/cgi-bin/php $HOME/html/cron/yourscript.php

A) 1) Displaying posts in wall of Profile section:

go to Settings > Application Settings

Click on Notes

Click on Import Blog link in Notes settings on Right side

Enter a website or RSS/Atom feed address in Web URL field

Click on Start Importing

Click on Confirm Import

The posts from the wordpress will be displayed on wall section in face book.

2) Displaying posts  in wall of a particular page

Click on Edit Page

Click on Edit link in Notes

Click on Import Blog link in Notes settings on Right side

Enter a website or RSS/Atom feed address in  Web URL field

Click on Start Importing

Click on Confirm Import

B) Add an application named Social RSS

Using this application, you can pull the wordpress posts to the wall and boxes section.

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf – apache configuration file

/var/log/httpd/error_log – apache error log file

/etc/hosts – host configuration file of apache

PHP

/etc/php.ini – php configuration file

MYSQL

/etc/my.cnf – mysql database server configuration file

Nginx

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

/var/log/nginx/error.log

/etc/init.d/mysqld stop – stops the mysql database server

/etc/init.d/mysqld restart – restarts  the mysql database server

Apache:

/etc/init.d/httpd start – starts the apache server

/etc/init.d/httpd stop – stops the apache server

/etc/init.d/httpd restart – restarts  the apache server