NetTuts.com has continued their series around programming with the Yii2 framework in this latest tutorial looking at the use of the Advanced Application Template, an enhanced boilerplate system that provides a bit more built-in functionality than the default application setup.

In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the Yii2 Framework for PHP. As you begin to use Yii for real development, you may want to start your next project with its Advanced Application Template. Among other things, it provides integrated user management features as well as two applications, one for the consumer-facing front end and the other, an administrative back end.

In this tutorial, I'll introduce you to the Yii2 Advanced Template and guide you through the basic setup and usage.

They start with a look at how the Advanced Template is different from the default one (a checklist) and how to set up a new project using it. They show how to configure the database connection and execute the required migration to build out the user table. They also walk you through the Apache setup for local development and what the resulting "Congratulations" page should look like. The remainder of the post explores the user management section, showing how to configure email delivery, signup, login and password reset requests.