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trntv/yii2-starter-kit
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Yii2 Starter Kit Application Template

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Yii 2 Starter Kit
=================

[](#yii-2-starter-kit)

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Stand with Ukraine!
===================

[](#stand-with-ukraine)

---

 [![](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ed3e4267fff71526763e9f9dc5a9b3dc211fcc20ec64cddab20c1a94d3ceb3d0/68747470733a2f2f6769746875622e626c6f672f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323032322f30332f31323030783633302d4769744875622d312e706e673f726573697a653d333230253243323430)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ed3e4267fff71526763e9f9dc5a9b3dc211fcc20ec64cddab20c1a94d3ceb3d0/68747470733a2f2f6769746875622e626c6f672f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323032322f30332f31323030783633302d4769744875622d312e706e673f726573697a653d333230253243323430)

While Russia is destroying my home and my country, killing my friends and neighbors - any russian company, organization, or citizen, who do nothing about it, is prohibited from using this package. For others - please, pray for us, share information about war crimes Russia is conducting in Ukraine, do everything you can to urge your governments to be on the right side of history. Ukraine will prevail! Good triumph over evil! Русский военный корабль, иди нах#й!

---

This is Yii2 start application template.

It was created and developing as a fast start for building an advanced sites based on Yii2.

It covers typical use cases for a new project and will help you not to waste your time doing the same work in every project

Before you start
----------------

[](#before-you-start)

Please, consider helping project via [contributions](https://github.com/yii2-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit/issues) or [donations](#donations).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------

[](#table-of-contents)

- [Demo](#demo)
- [Features](#features)
- [Installation](docs/installation.md)
    - [Manual installation](docs/installation.md#manual-installation)
    - [Docker installation](docs/installation.md#docker-installation)
- [Components documentation](docs/components.md)
- [Console commands](docs/console.md)
- [Testing](docs/testing.md)
- [FAQ](docs/faq.md)
- [How to contribute?](#how-to-contribute)
- [Have any questions?](#have-any-questions)

Quickstart
----------

[](#quickstart)

1. [Install taskctl](https://getcomposer.org)
2. [Install docker](https://docs.docker.com/install/)
3. [Install docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)
4. Run ```
    composer create-project yii2-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit myproject.com --ignore-platform-reqs
    cd myproject.com
    taskctl start
    ```
5. Go to

FEATURES
--------

[](#features)

### Admin backend

[](#admin-backend)

- Beautiful and open source dashboard theme for backend [AdminLTE 3](https://adminlte.io/themes/v3/)
- Content management components: articles, categories, static pages, editable menu, editable carousels, text blocks
- Settings editor. Application settings form (based on KeyStorage component)
- [File manager](https://github.com/MihailDev/yii2-elfinder)
- Users, RBAC management
- Events timeline
- Logs viewer
- System monitoring

### Development tasks

[](#development-tasks)

To list all available development tasks follow these steps:

1. Install [taskctl](https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl) task runner
2. Run `taskctl`

### I18N

[](#i18n)

- Built-in translations:
    - English
    - Spanish
    - Russian
    - Ukrainian
    - Chinese
    - Vietnamese
    - Polish
    - Portuguese (Brazil)
    - Indonesian (Bahasa)
- Language switcher, built-in behavior to choose locale based on browser preferred language
- Backend translations manager

### Users

[](#users)

- Sign in
- Sign up
- Profile editing(avatar, locale, personal data)
- Optional activation by email
- OAuth authorization
- RBAC with predefined `guest`, `user`, `manager` and `administrator` roles
- RBAC migrations support

### Development

[](#development)

- Ready-to-use Docker-based stack (php, nginx, mysql, mailcatcher)
- .env support
- [Webpack](https://webpack.js.org/) build configuration
- Key-value storage service
- Ready to use REST API module
- [File storage component + file upload widget](https://github.com/trntv/yii2-file-kit)
- On-demand thumbnail creation [trntv/yii2-glide](https://github.com/trntv/yii2-glide)
- Built-in queue component [yiisoft/yii2-queue](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-queue)
- Command Bus with queued and async tasks support [trntv/yii2-command-bus](https://github.com/trntv/yii2-command-bus)
- `ExtendedMessageController` with ability to replace source code language and migrate messages between message sources
- [Some useful shortcuts](https://github.com/yii2-starter-kit/yii2-starter-kit/blob/master/common/helpers.php)

### Other

[](#other)

- Useful behaviors (GlobalAccessBehavior, CacheInvalidateBehavior)
- Maintenance mode support ([more](#maintenance-mode))
- [Aceeditor widget](https://github.com/trntv/yii2-aceeditor)
- [Datetimepicker widget](https://github.com/trntv/yii2-bootstrap-datetimepicker),
- [Imperavi Reactor Widget](https://github.com/asofter/yii2-imperavi-redactor),
- [Xhprof Debug panel](https://github.com/trntv/yii2-debug-xhprof)
- Sitemap generator
- Extended IDE autocompletion
- Test-ready
- Docker support and Vagrant support
- Built-in [mailcatcher](http://mailcatcher.me/)
- [Swagger](https://swagger.io/) for API docs.

DEMO
----

[](#demo)

- Frontend:
- Backend:

`administrator` role account

```
Login: webmaster
Password: webmaster

```

`manager` role account

```
Login: manager
Password: manager

```

`user` role account

```
Login: user
Password: user

```

How to contribute?
------------------

[](#how-to-contribute)

You can contribute in any way you want. Any help appreciated, but most of all i need help with docs (^\_^)

Have any questions?
-------------------

[](#have-any-questions)

Mail to  or [yevhen.terentiev@gmail.com](mailto:yevhen.terentiev@gmai.com)

READ MORE
---------

[](#read-more)

- [Yii2](https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/tree/master/docs)
- [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-started/)

### NOTE

[](#note)

This template was created mostly for developers NOT for end users. This is a point where you can start your application, rather than creating it from scratch. Good luck!

###  Health Score

56

—

FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance58

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity48

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community38

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~77 days

Recently: every ~191 days

Total

32

Last Release

1903d ago

Major Versions

1.5.1 → 2.0.02015-05-09

2.6.0 → 3.0.02018-11-15

3.0.3 → 4.0.02020-05-11

PHP version history (4 changes)1.0.0PHP &gt;=5.4.0

2.0.1PHP &gt;=5.5.0

2.5.0PHP &gt;=5.6.0

2.5.2PHP &gt;=7.1.0

### Community

Maintainers

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