The TutsPlus.com site has posted the next article in their "Programming with Yii2" series, this time focusing on the routing and URL creation in the application and how the requests get to the intended functionality (in controllers).

In today's tutorial, I'll review routing and URL creation in Yii. When a browser request arrives at your Yii application's index.php file, it must be parsed to determine which controller and method to call. That's routing. The reverse process of linking to parts of your application is URL creation, which is best done programmatically.

Yii provides a lot of flexibility in managing routing and generating links. Follow me as I review the basics.

He starts with a bit of background on the URL manager that comes built in to the Yii2 framework and how the routes are defined. He then starts in by defining some of the desired routes for the application and how to set them up in the main configuration file (including defaults). The tutorial also includes configuration examples of "pretty URLs", and outputting custom URLs using the "Url" helper.