... and today I am beginning with Yii 2 so I will also gather my snippets and publish them here. They are meant maily for me, but also for other beginners. I have some experiences with Yii 1, but I havent used Yii for almost 5 years so many things are new for me again. Plus I was suprised that the Yii 2 demo application does not contain some basic functionalities which must be implemented in the most of web projects so I will focus on them. Plus I will talk about GitLab.
Prerequisities
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I work with Win10 + [XAMPP Server](https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html) so I will expect this configuration.
You should also download the [Yii basic demo application](https://www.yiiframework.com/download) and place it into the **htdocs** folder. In my case it is here: