We have rolled out release 2.0.0 for WhatACart, an open source ecommerce platform. This has been a major release where the application architecture has been changed to be more in sync with Yii 2.0 framework so that it would be easier for developers and designers to get ramp up on the platform. Also it would allow developers to integrate extensions already available for Yii 2.0 into the platform very easily.

Junaid Atari maintains a repository where you can download Yii 2 guide and API docs in CHM, WebHelp and MS Word formats.

Tenth Yii development notes issue is out with some interesting links and facts inside.

Yii 2 usuario is a highly customizable and extensible user management, RBAC management, authentication, and authorization Yii2 module extension.

It works extensively with Yii's Container making it really easy to override absolutely anything within its core. The module is built to work out of the box with some minor config tweaks and it comes with the following features:

• Backend user/profile/account management
• Backend RBAC management
• Login via username/email + password process
• Login via social network process
• Password recovery process

We considered that RBAC was essential to be included into any user management module, even if you simply use one user with admin role, its much better to actually work with RBAC just in case your application scales in the future.

Yii team released three official extensions.

In Auth Client, besides bugfixes, there are some new features. OpenID Connect support was added as well as OAuth2-authentication via JSON Web Token (JWT). Token exchange was implemented for Facebook.

Yii2support plugin beta version was released.

New functionality:

1. validation autocomplete
2. autotype for Yii::createObject() call

Feel free to test and post bugs on GitHub. Because it is a beta release, it should be installed via "Install plugin from disk".

Plugin file could be downloaded either from plugins.jetbrains.com Beta channel or from https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/download?updateId=35899.

Another issue of development notes was posted. Two Yii releases, 2.1 details, experimental extension, a blog post, and some details on how campaign goes.

The very basic Yii setup using WAMP or MAMP. It's covered in even more details than official Yii guide has.

Jeff Reifman startup series continues with another episode. This time the topic is about introducing major changes into the project.

Yii team released an update for 1.1 branch of the framework.