In this tuts+ tutorial Jeff Reifman shows how to build and explore a very basic ActiveRecord based REST API using Yii 2.0.

Redis extension version 2.0.6 was released. This release contains important fixes for composite keys and executing two-word commands. There are enhancements and new features as well:

• Better code completion in IDEs
• It is now possible to avoid sending a SELECT command after connection by setting Connection::$database to null
• \yii\db\QueryInterface::emulateExecution() was introduced to allow creating an empty query without the need to connect to a database
• Redis-based Mutex implementation was added

If you are displaying ActiveRecord on its own route, you can use this extension to make it easier creating URLs. You won't write code like below anymore:

Html::a(
    $user->name, [
        '/user/view',
        'id' => $user->id,
    ],
    [
        'class' => 'text-success'
    ],
);

Instead, it would be $model->hotlink or

$model->getHotlink('view', ['class' => 'text-success']);

Whenever you have to change the route adjust behavior configuration in your ActiveRecord instead of going through your view files updating routes one by one. You can also link to other components or ActiveRecords that use the LinkableBehavior via getHotlinkTo().

This extension allows the use of Webpack2 system to manage assets in Yii 2.

Please check a README and a sample app to understand how to use it.

Migration v2.0 extension has been released with the ability to generate updating migration based on the current database table structure and table migration history.

Previously Migration was able to generate only creating migrations based on the current database table structure - now it can scan migration history and generate virtual table schema based on it and then compare it with current table structure to generate updating migration.

Three posts about how Yii development goes from Alexander Makarov from core team:

• Yii development notes #1
• Yii development notes #2
• Yii development notes #3

An aricle on how to run background jobs periodically via cron and Yii console controllers.

A not backwards compatible version 2.1.0 was releaseed. It adds support for scalar global variables, unifies path() and url() syntax to match Url::to() and makes package more flexible by using DI container to instantiating extensions.

The article compares basic application template and advanced application template. There are some tips and a good feature chart at the end.

New version provides wide functionality for code completion in Yii arrays. The main improvement is about supporting Yii::createObject() and Object::__construct(). Those methods are widely used in the framework so there are many places where code completion will work much better in these cases:

• Array in $config parameter of yii\base\Object or its descendants constructor
• Array that has "class" key containing valid class representation: a fully qualified class name as a string, ClassName::class or Class::className()
• Array value which refers to one of standard Yii components such as "db", "request", or "mailer". File with this array should be located in a directory called "config"
• WidgetClass::widget() and WidgetClass::begin() calls if WidgetClass is a descendant of yii\base\Widget
• $field->widget() method call on yii\widgets\ActiveField and its descendants
• Inside array in GridView "columns" key
• Yii::createObject() method

New developer has joined the project so we expect the plugin to develop faster making Yii framework even better.