yii provides a whole set of tools to simplify the task of implementing RESTful Web Service APIs. Here I am goint build an example REST APIs with yii2. Lets get started.

1. open phpstorm, create an empty project, and initial composer.
2. Open cmd, locate to project folder

3. Run following two composer commends:

   composer global require “fxp/composer-asset-plugin:^1.2.0”
   composer create-project –prefer-dist yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic

   If you need learn more about composer, checkout: https://getcomposer.org/

4. Now upload whole project to the server

   

5. Change the ownership of the website folder

   cd /home/wwwroot/project1.abc.com
   chown www:www ./ -R

6. Open the browser

   

7. Database connection

   

8. Configure the url manager

   

   

9. Now we can generate model class by Gii. Open the url:
   http://project1.abc.com/basic/web/index.php?r=gii

   

   We have customer table, just use this table

   

   

   

10. Use this model as the model of our controller

    

11. Make a request