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Here is my experiment inspired by my own question and others from the forum.

Since I used CGridView for a first time, I didn't like how it handled operations like sorting, filtering, changing page and etc using AJAX.

I needed a csv export function for my cgridview and I wanted to export the entire result set of the sorted and filtered cgridview the user was viewing via ajax.

In this mini howto I would like to show how to add a required captcha field in the login form, after a defined number of unsuccessfull attempts. To do this, I will use the blog demo that you have in default Yii download package (path/to/yii/demos/blog).

How many of us has wondered how to create an autocomplete that will display the names of a related models but do require the id of that selected name to be submitted for model creation/update?

This article discusses the installation/configuration of the YiiBash project (https://github.com/dsoprea/YiiBash).

Let's say our table 'mug' has a column named 'color' of the type ENUM('red','green','blue'). We want to replace the textfield for the attribute color in the create and update forms of a 'mug' with a Radio Button List, which has the enum values as options. This is a rewrite of c@cba in the wiki article of enumDropdownListThe main code was contributed by zaccaria in the forum (see this post).

Let's say our table 'mug' has a column named 'color' of the type ENUM('red','green','blue'). We want to replace the textfield for the attribute color in the create and update forms of a 'mug' with a drop down list, which has the enum values as options. The main code was contributed by zaccaria in the forum (see this post).

To use this "how-to", you need to install phing in your machine.

This article will explain how to create a REST API with the Yii framework.