Larry Ullman posted the final revision of his Yii Book 2nd Edition about Yii2.

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Yii 2 Application Development Cookbook - Third Edition was just released by PACKT publishing.

The book is based on the Alexander Makarov (@samdark) book about Yii 1.1. All the old recipes were refined for Yii 2.0. New ones were added as well.

Authors are Andrew Bogdanov from 2amigos and Dmitry Eliseev who's well known in Russian Yii community for his webinars and tutorials.

You can order the book at publisher website

Second edition of the Yii Application Development Cookbook by Alexander Makarov will be available in a few weeks. In the new version many recipes were updated and rewritten to reflect latest Yii and PHP world changes and improve overall experience. Additionally all errata from the first edition was fixed.

It features some brand new recipes:

• Rendering content at the client side
• Leveraging HTTP caching
• Using Composer with Yii

You can learn much more about the book on its companion website. Feel free to discuss it at the forums.

We just have two new Yii books published: "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP", and "The Yii Book".

The book "Web Application Development with Yii and PHP" is actually an updated edition of "Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5" which was the first Yii book published back in 2010. Written by Jeffrey Winesett, this book introduces Yii by applying it to build a real world project management system. Find more information about this book

"The Yii Book" is written by Larry Ullman, a professional writer of many best-selling books. This book tries to explain the most important features and concepts in the Yii framework, using practical, real-world examples. Find more information about this book

PACKT publishing released the second book about Yii authored by core team member Alexander Makarov (samdark). This book is a recipe book about Yii. It contains 13 indepen­dent chapters full of material that will show you how to use Yii efficiently.

• Publisher: PACKT Publishing.
• Language: English.
• Paperback: 392 pages [ 235mm × 191mm ]
• ISBN: 1849515484

PACKT publishing announced the second book about Yii authored by core team member Alexander Makarov (samdark). This book is of cookbook type featuring a lot of recipes that will allow you to learn more things not mentioned in the guide as well as to understand framework better.

You can get first 6 chapters now by subscribing to Pack Publishing RAW program.

• Publisher: PACKT Publishing.
• Language: English.
• 13 chapters and ~300 pages.
• Planned release date: September 2011.

We are very pleased to announce that the first Yii book is published today! The book is titled Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5. Thanks to Jeffrey Winesett for his hard work in turning this into reality. We believe this book will help people to master Yii more quickly and systematically.

The main content of this book include:

• A step-by-step guide to creating a modern, sophisticated web application using an incremental and iterative approach to software development
• Build a real-world, user-based, database-driven project task management application using the Yii development framework
• Take a test-driven design (TDD) approach to software development utilizing the Yii testing framework
• Write less code by using Yii's application generation and scaffolding tools