Introduction and requirements for using YII2 Farmework

Introduction

What is Yii

Yii is a high performance, component-based PHP framework for rapidly
developing modern Web applications. The name Yii (pronounced Yee or [ji
:]) means “simple and evolutionary” in Chinese. It can also be thought of
as an acronym for Yes It Is!



Requirements and Prerequisites

Yii 2.0 requires PHP 5.4.0 or above. You can find more detailed requirements
for individual features by running the requirement checker included in every
Yii release.


Using Yii requires basic knowledge of object-oriented programming (OOP),
as Yii is a pure OOP-based framework. Yii 2.0 also makes use of the latest
features of PHP, such as namespaces2 and traits3 . Understanding these con-
cepts will help you more easily pick up Yii 2.0.

How to setup / install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 or 14.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5

To properly check  the installed version of PHP do: 

php5 -v 

How to install mysql?

This is the mysql server witch you need.

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

The client you need it if you want to run commands from the workbench and not from a terminal. so this is optional.

sudo apt-get install mysql-client

and for Mysql-Workbench(optional):

sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench

Install phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a very popular MySQL management software package.

Step 1: Install phpMyAdmin

First, you’ll follow a simple best practice: ensuring the list of available packages is up to date before installing anything new.

apt-get -y update

Then it’s a matter of just running one command for installation via apt-get:

apt-get -y install phpmyadmin

Step 2: Basic Configuration

As the installation runs you’ll be asked a few simple questions regarding the basic configuration of phpMyAdmin.

Step 3: Finish the Configuration of Apache

For a refresher on editing files


vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

Add the following to the bottom of the file:

# phpMyAdmin Configuration

Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf


And, restart Apache 2 with the following command:

service apache2 restart

Verify that phpMyAdmin is working by visiting the_IP_of_your_server/phpmyadmin.

For example:

http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin
http://localhost/phpmyadmin




Install NetBeans IDE 8.0:


NetBeans is a software development platform written in Java. The NetBeans Platform allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called modules.

Applications based on the NetBeans Platform, including the NetBeans integrated development environment (IDE), can be extended by third party developers.

JDK 7u80 with NetBeans 8.0.2

This distribution of the JDK includes the Java SE bundle of NetBeans IDE, which is a 
powerful integrated development environment for developing applications on the Java platform. 


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Project developing time faced errors in PHP, MySql, and Apache

PHP Fatal Error – yii\base\ErrorException

Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 262144 bytes)

Answers

Just add this below line to before line of you getting error in your file

ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');

It will take unlimited memory usage of server, it's working fine.

****************************************

php.ini changed as follows: memory_limit = 512MB to memory_limit = 536870912. 

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And also to change it via php like so (before error line):

ini_set('memory_limit','128M');

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PHP Fatal Error – yii\base\ErrorException

Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded

Edit php.ini

Follow the path /etc/php5(your php version)/apache2/php.ini.

Open it and set the value of max_execution_time to a desired one.

max_execution_time = 360     
 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds (I CHANGED THIS VALUE)

max_input_time = 120          
; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data

;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level

memory_limit = 128M           
; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB by default)

All the answers above are correct, but I use a simple way to avoid it in some cases.

Just put this command in the begining of your script:

set_time_limit(0);

YII2 mPDF

HTML to PDF introduction

Setting paper size in FPDF

mPDF is a simple and popular tool for shared hosting users to create and convert UTF-8 encoded HTML pages to PDF files.

The yii2-mpdf extension is a Yii2 wrapper component for the mPDF library with enhancements. The mPDF library offers ability to generate PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. This library is based on FPDF andHTML2FPDF, with a number of enhancements. The key features in the library are to be able to generate PDF files 'on-the-fly' from HTML content, handling different languages. See the list of features and/or examples for the library. The yii2-mpdf extension offers an easy way to integrate and use the mPDF library within your Yii application with subtle enhancements. 

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer. Either run:

$ php composer.phar require kartik-v/yii2-mpdf "*"

or add:

"kartik-v/yii2-mpdf": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file. Then run:

php composer.phar update

to get the updated package on your application install.

Install and  Use    

http://demos.krajee.com/site/mpdf

Settings \kartik\mpdf\Pdf

The extension includes the \kartik\mpdf\Pdf Component class (which extends and builds upon the yii/base/Component class).

mPDF Usage

How to set or resize margin in mPDF ?
How to change paper orientation in mPDF ?
How to change font size in mPDF ?
How to change paper size in mPDF ?

Answers:

If you want to be more specific about encoding and page size, you can put those parameters when initializing mPDF class like this:

1	$mpdf = new mPDF('utf-8', 'A4');

You can even specify actual page size in mm. In the example below the page size will be 190mm wide x 236mm height:

1	$mpdf = new mPDF('utf-8', array(190,236));

If you want full functionality, you can even specify margins and if the page is landscape like this:

1	$mpdf = new mPDF('',    // mode - default ''

2	'',    // format - A4, for example, default ''

3	0,     // font size - default 0

4	'',    // default font family

5	15,    // margin_left

6	15,    // margin right

7	16,     // margin top

8	16,    // margin bottom

9	9,     // margin header

10	9,     // margin footer

11	'L');  // L - landscape, P - portrait

Example


* First find required data
* Create php file receipt-print.php. This file used to display format for pdf file.
* Use renderPartial funtion to send values to display receipt-print.php and assign object to $html variable
* Create mpdf object assign parameters.
* Write html and create output.




public function actionPrintCommonReceipt($receipt_no, $ccid)
    {
        
        if(!yii::$app->user->can('view-receipt'))   
        {        
            throw new ForbiddenHttpException;
            die();
        }
        
            $model = $this->findModel($receipt_no, $ccid);
                    
            $model->receipt_date=date('d-m-Y',strtotime($model->receipt_date));                   
            $modelsReceiptitems = $model->receiptitems;
            
            $student = $this->findStudentDetails($model->students_admission_number,$ccid);

            $cent = Center::findone(['ccid'=>$ccid]);
            
            $html = $this->renderPartial('receipt-print',[
                'model' => $model,
                'modelsReceiptitems' => $modelsReceiptitems,
                'student' => $student,
                'centerAddress'=>$cent['address'],
                ]);
                        
                //$imgSrc = Yii::$app->urlManager->createAbsoluteUrl('site/loadimage');
$mpdf = new mPDF('utf-8', 'A4',0,'',15,15,5,5,4,9,'P');
//$mpdf->WriteHTML('<watermarkimage src='.$imgSrc.' alpha="0.33" size="50,30"/>');
$mpdf->showWatermarkImage = true;
$mpdf->WriteHTML($html);
$mpdf->Output($title.'.pdf', "I");
            
        
    }

mPDF settings to Custom Paper Size

How to set the page in landscape mode in mpdf ?

// Define a Landscape page size/format by name
$mpdf=new mPDF('utf-8', 'A4-L');

mPDF set to half of paper size A4 

They even give an example with custom size:

Example with a custom 210x148 mm page size:

$pdf = new FPDF('P','mm',array(210,148));

$mpdf = new mPDF('utf-8', array(210,148),0,'',15,15,5,5,4,9,'P');