Yii Application Development Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 1. Under the Hood

In this chapter, we will cover:

Using getters and setters

Using Yii events

Using import and autoloading

Using exceptions

Configuring components

Configuring widget defaults

Using Yii core collections

Working with requests

Introduction

In this chapter, we will cover the most interesting Yii features that are hidden under the hood. These are mostly described in the framework API, but since they are not mentioned in the official guide (http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/) or only mentioned very briefly, only experienced Yii developers usually use these. However, the features described here are relatively simple and using them makes development with Yii much more fun and productive.

Using getters and setters

Yii has many features that came from other languages, such as Java or C#. One of them is defining properties with getters and setters for any of the classes extended from CComponent (that is, virtually any Yii