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The problem: If you type Yii::app()->user<ctrl+space> code completion didn't work. This solve it.

After Installing Yii Users and Rights to Newly Created Yii app we have to assign dynamic roles to a user at the time of user creation .

Speedup unit tests by moving MySql data to memory [Ubuntu]

Sometimes new Yii guys face problem to manage dependent dropDownList using AJAX. I am going to discuss an easy solution about this issue.

I recently had to have a checkbox column in my grid view that supported the 'disabled' attribute. This was easy enough to do by extending the CCheckBoxColumn. However, I also wanted the checkbox to be selected when clicking on the table's row (supported via CGridView's selectableRows option). I discovered I had to tweak yiigridview.js so that it would not select disabled rows when clicking on it or on the 'select all' checkbox.

This article will show how you can use Yii common functions as shorten OOP function. These functions will help you work with Yii common functions is easier as OOP style.

You may face a situation when you need to access to a configurable module's property from everywhere and you don't have an instance of this module's class.

In many cases developers of one project use their own local environments for coding. There may be a common test platform and, of course, production. All these environments usually have different DB credentials and directory structures (first of all, path to YII framework directory). Another feature is debugging. It's convenient to turn it on for local environments, eventually - on the test server and never (generally speaking) - on the production.

You can find the english version of this wiki here: The complete beginner's study guide for the Yii Framework.

Start studying the MVC pattern. You will understand the roles of the model, the view and the controller and know where goes each part of the code.