Alexander Makarov - Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook

Alexander Makarov graduated from Voronezh State University in 2007 with a master degree in computer science. During his study, he started working on homegrown PHP frameworks and projects trying various design patterns and techniques.

During the last year of his study, he spent a year working for Siemens mainly doing Java coding and complex SQL reports and also did many small and medium freelance projects in his free time.

In 2007, he joined an outsourcing company, Murano Software, and had a lot of experience with web development in general, J2EE, PHP, and client-side technologies working on projects such as wrike.com and docufide.com. As in previous years he did some notable freelance jobs, including social network for Russia Today built with Yii in 2009 and heavy loaded NNM.ru portal in 2008.

Between 2008 and 2010, he helped the Russian CodeIgniter community to grow and started actively to contribute to open source projects.

In 2009, Alexander joined Yii camp and started growing the Russian Yii community, translated documentation into Russian and, since May 2010, has become a passionate Yii framework core developer.

He has published several articles in Smashing Magazine and a lot more in his Russian blog http://rmcreative.ru/, and has presented numerous talks on Yii and web development in general at various conferences.

Alexander currently resides in Voronezh, Russia, with his beloved wife and daughter. Besides the web, he enjoys movies, rock music, travelling, photography, and languages.

I would like to thank Qiang Xue, Maurizio Domba, Sebastin Thierer, Alexander Kochetov, Antonio Ramirez Cobos, and all people who reviewed the RAW book. Your suggestions and critics helped to improve this book a lot.

I would like to thank Qiang Xue and Wei Zhuo for creating Yii. I would also like to thank Packt Publishing for inviting me to write this book and helping me to actually get it done.

I would like to thank all the past and current Yii core team members for keeping Yii in a good shape and making it better and better. You guys rock!

Anatoliy Dimitrov has an O'Reilly certificate in PHP/MySQL programming and he is a great supporter of Yii. Besides that, he is experienced in website security, server hardening, and secure services configuration.

He has held senior technical positions for some of the largest hosting companies, payment processors, and many freelance projects.

I would like to thank Rali, the love of my life, for everything and especially allowing me to stay late in the evenings working.

Antonio Ramirez Cobos (aka tonydspaniard), self-educated programmer, jumped into the world of coding while studying hardware and client support at TAFE, Melbourne.

He has more than 12 years of experience and has been working in the field using Javascript, C++, Java, ASP.net (with C#), Visual Basic (COM, COM+), Dynamic DLL, until he met PHP and the wonders of open source. Since then, he has not left that language and specializes in building web applications.

A Yii lover, he maintains his blog at www.ramirezcobos.com, which has been lately used to propagate the wonders of such frameworks. He is also a regular user of Yii's forum.

SAKURAI, atsushi is a microprocessor expert, as well as a PHP programmer for over 10 years. As a manager of a design team of microprocessors, he has been working to build the support website for their microprocessors. Recently, his efficiency for developing web application is drastically increasing, thanks to Yii. His main contribution to the Yii community includes the translation of the documentations into Japanese.