Build a REST API using Yii2 PHP Framework

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.htaccess for Yii 2 advanced

 Setting .htaccess for Yii2 advanced in Windows using Open Server. On the server with the unix system a .htaccess will work too, is checked.

Step-by-step instruction

Step 1

At the root of the project (@app) add a .htaccess with the following content:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    Options +FollowSymlinks
    RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>
 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>    
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(admin)
    RewriteRule ^admin/assets/(.*)$ backend/web/assets/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^admin/css/(.*)$ backend/web/css/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^admin/js/(.*)$ backend/web/js/$1 [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/backend/web/(assets|js|css|js)/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(admin)
    RewriteRule ^.*$ backend/web/index.php [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(assets|css|js|images)
    RewriteRule ^assets/(.*)$ frontend/web/assets/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^css/(.*)$ frontend/web/css/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^js/(.*)$ frontend/web/js/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^images/(.*)$ frontend/web/images/$1 [L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ frontend/web/$1 [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(frontend|backend)/web/(assets|css|js)/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !index.php
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ frontend/web/index.php
</IfModule>

Where admin - path to the @backend/web.

Step 2

In the folder @frontend/web add the file .htaccess with the following content:

RewriteEngine on
 
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Step 3

In the file @frontend/config/main.php in item components of array add:

'request' => [
    'baseUrl' => '',
],
'urlManager' => [
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'rules' => [
        '' => 'site/index',                                
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/' => '<controller>/<action>',
    ],
],

Step 4

In the folder @backend/web add the file .htaccess with the following content:

RewriteEngine on
 
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 
# otherwise forward it to index.phpp
RewriteRule . index.php

Step 5

In the file @backend/config/main.php in item components of array add:

'request' => [
    'baseUrl' => '/admin',
],
'urlManager' => [
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'rules' => [
        '' => 'site/index',                                
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/' => '<controller>/<action>',
    ],
],

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Laravel Input multi dimensional array

Hi, in my template I have:

@for($i = 0; $i < 4; $i++) 
        {{ dd(Input::old('custom_link.0.title')) }}
        <div class="form-group">
            <label for="link_title_{{ $i }}">Link Title {{ $i+1 }}</label>
            <input type="text" class="form-control" id="link_title_{{ $i }}" name="custom_link[{{ $i }}][title]" value="{{ Input::old('custom_link.0.title') }}">
        </div>
        
    @endfor

put template 

{{ Input::old('custom_link.' . $i . '.title')) }}

After vlidation on controller I return

return Redirect::route('community-create-step-4')
     ->withErrors($validator)
     ->withInput();

Validation rules that depends on what the request is using condition

You could use the request helper:

public function rules()
{
    $baseRules = [
       'email' => 'required|email',
       'g-recaptcha-response' => 'required|recaptcha'
    ];
    if(request()->get("valueFromPost") === '2') {    
        return $baseRules + [                
            'confirm_email' => 'required|email|same:email'
        ];

    }

    return $baseRules;
}

Or the shorter (but less readable) version:

public function rules()
{
    return [
       'email' => 'required|email',
       'g-recaptcha-response' => 'required|recaptcha'
    ] + (request()->get("valueFromPost") === '2' ? [ 'confirm_email' => 'required|email|same:email' ] : []);    
}

Camel case model relationship is returned as snake case property

Put following code in to your model class

/**
	* Indicates whether attributes are snake cased on arrays.
	*
	* @var bool
	*/
	public static $snakeAttributes = false;

Sample code as follows,

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class BaseModel extends Model {

/**     
* Indicates whether attributes are snake cased on arrays.     
*     
* @var bool     
*/    
public static $snakeAttributes = false;

}

fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

In my case, error was just fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories on every especially first pull request after remotely adding a git repo.

Using --allow-unrelated-histories flag worked with pull request in this way:

git pull origin branchname --allow-unrelated-histories

How to remove "api" Prefix from URL

For Laravel 5.5:wn vote

accepted

It's just prefix to differ your api routes from other routes. You can add something different from apito here.

In app\Providers\RouterServiceProvider change this function:

   /**
     * Define the "api" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes are typically stateless.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapApiRoutes()
    {
        Route::prefix('api')
             ->middleware('api')
             ->namespace($this->namespace)
             ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));
    }

Remove prefixe line:

   /**
     * Define the "api" routes for the application.
     *
     * These routes are typically stateless.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function mapApiRoutes()
    {
        Route::middleware('api')
             ->namespace($this->namespace)
             ->group(base_path('routes/api.php'));
    }