If you follow the instruction in Create a Web Application with yiic in TurnKey Linux to generate a web application, we may customize error messages. How Login is handled in Yii Framework will help you to learn about how authentication works in a generated web application.
If you follow the instruction in Create a Web Application with yiic in TurnKey Linux to generate a web application, the default authentication is text-based. Let’s change to database-based.
Before continue reading, please follow Play Yii Framework with TurnKey Linux to create database table tbl_user and model User which we are going to use for authentication later. If you want to learn more about how authentication works in a generated web application, How Login is handled in Yii Framework will help.
When you browse http:// IP address /index.php?r=site/login in a web application generated by Gii (a Web-based code generator), what will happen? I am interested in the whole process which should help to learn how Yii works.
After playing with the default web application in TurnKey Linux: Yii Framework, I try to create my own with yiic. It’s like MFC Application Wizard which helps to create a simple application for you.
Because my NetBeans is on the host while the development environment is in the guest, I need to treat Yii Framework in TurnKey Linux in virtual machine as a remote server. Here is how to make them work together.
