NetTuts.com has posted the latest part of their "Programming with Yii2" series today that dives deeper into the functionality of the framework and investigates the use of MVC forms and layouts.

In Programming with Yii2: Getting Started, we set up Yii2 locally, built a Hello World application, set up a remote server, and used Github to deploy our code. This tutorial will cover some of Yii's more basic concepts related to its implementation of the MVC framework: Models, Views and Controllers. We'll also explore layouts and customization of navigation menus and Bootstrap elements.

They start with a look at the model functionality Yii2 has to offer and creates a first simple model, the "Status" model, to evaluate permission status. Next up is a simple controller, one that handles incoming status requests and either creates the record or displays the information in the model. Next is the output part of the application with examples of view handling, forms and layouts.