Jeffrey Winesett - Web Application Development with Yii and PHP

Jeffrey Winesett has over ten years of experience building large-scale, web-based applications. He has been a strong proponent of using open source development frameworks when developing applications, and a champion of the Yii framework in particular since its initial alpha release. He frequently presents on, writes about, and develops with Yii as often as possible.

I would like to thank Qiang Xue for creating this amazing framework, and the entire Yii framework development team who continually improve and maintain it. I thank all of the technical reviewers, editors, and staff at Packt Publishing for their fantastic contributions, suggestions, and improvements.

I would also like to thank my family, who have provided encouragement and unconditional support, and to my many colleagues over the years for providing invaluable opportunities for me to explore new technologies, expand my knowledge, and shape my career.

Wojciech Bancer has a Master's Degree in Computer Science. He has over ten years of experience in web application development. In 2007, after passing the Zend exam, he gained a Zend Certified Engineer for PHP5 certificate. Wojciech started his career developing web applications in PHP4 and PHP5 as a freelancer. Later, he started working for a digital media agency in London, where he was introduced to various PHP frameworks and agile processes. Currently, he is a technical consultant for ORM London working on a range of web, mobile, and touch projects.

To my wife and son, I wish them the best.

Carsten Brandt has been a freelance PHP developer for many years. He founded his own ISP company providing web development and hosting services in 2007. Together with his wife and little son, he is currently living in Berlin, Germany and studying Computer Science at Technische Universitt Berlin.

He first started with Yii in 2010 and has contributed heavily to the yiiext extension repository http://yiiext.github.com/ since then. After Yii moved to GitHub, he started contributing to the Yii framework code too, and since August 2012 he has been an active member of the Yii framework developer team.

I would like to thank my beloved wife Mila for letting me do open source work in my free time, and not arguing too much when I stay late for doing work I don't get paid for.

I would also like to thank Qiang Xue for creating this great framework, and Alexander Makarov, Maurizio Domba, and all other contributors for their active and valuable contributions, keeping Yii fast and solid.

Brett Gregson is a PHP/iOS software developer based in South Africa. His main area of expertise is user interface design and user experience. He is a big fan of the Yii framework and jQuery. He currently works at RAW Media Concepts in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Stephan Hohmann , having been raised in the reach of an 8086 IBM PC, had his career choice set in his early ages. After toying around with a plethora of programming languages and operating systems, Stephan has now settled mostly for Fedora Linux and web programming with PHP (for the time being). He is currently involved in making the Yii framework better and creating formidable applications with it.

Alexander Makarov is an experienced engineer from Russia, and a member of the Yii framework core team since 2010. He is the author of another book on the Yii framework called Yii 1.1 Application Development Cookbook , Packt Publishing .

Thanks to my family for being patient with me as I took up yet another project and spent less time with them.

Thanks to the Yii community for their encouragement and contributions. It would not have been possible to get free time if we were creating Yii without all these pull-requests at Github. You're the best!