This week Yii team released two extensions and made some progress with Yii 3.

There is a bonus-article about Yii 2 in there.

Changelog:

• Updated according to: 2.0.25
• Bootstrap 4 => 2.0.7
• Gii => 2.1.1
• Debug => 2.1.7
• Auth Client => 2.2.4
• Sphinx => 2.0.12

Recent release Tuesday summary was posted with some details about Yii 3 progress and, of course, Yii 2 releases.

yii2-vueapp is a Vue.js helper for create Vue app in Yii 2 without webpack or similar.

All assets (JavaScript, CSS and templates) are injected directly into HTML. The extension provides functionality to split the code (JavaScript, CSS and templates) and to load parameters from HTML root element.

Aleksandar Panic from 2amigos on configuring assets.

Yii 2.0.24 and debug extension 2.1.7 were released. yiisoft/json was extracted and polished.

• Bootstrap 4 and Debug extensions released
• Yii 2 release next week
• Yii 3 is moving forward

Yii 2.0.23 was released and there is some interesting info about Yii 3 published at OpenCollective page.

A handler from Yii 2 was ported over and adjusted. The forum post lists cool features it supports:

• It converts warnings, notices etc. to exceptions as it was in Yii 2
• It handles fatals such as parsing errors
• It handles out of memory
• Of course, it handles normal exceptions
• If request context is available, it gives info about request. The format is ready to copy-paste to PhpStorm editor-based HTTP client
• It logs

Srdjan Drakul from 2amigos explains how to do identity impersonation with Yii 2 i.e. log in as another user.