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We all know that widgets are really useful. We can use the almost everywhere we want, and we can use the same code a lot of times ( Almost OOP ).

I have been trying to find information on how to sync the sessions between Yii and KCFinder so that the two applications can "communicate" with each other. I managed to find some bits and pieces on the correct approach to use, but not a definite guide or concrete code.

A big problem I've hit with the Yii-Bootstrap extension is that all AJAX requests are initializing Bootstrap because of preload. This is a huge waste of resources, especially when using AJAX-based file uploaders that split the file into chunks. Large file uploads using that method could be initializing bootstrap hundreds of times.

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?

Sometimes it would be nice if we could run yiic from an action, for example a migrate database button in our admin panel. Or because you are on a host which doesn't have shell access. Or maybe you are not allowed run popen or exec.

This is what I did. Its the EASIEST solution that I know of. I just reused the advanced search done in CGridView.

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Original source code and idea are from: PHP, PDO & Nested Transactions.

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This is a reference to be used for Model rule validation and is compiled from the Yii documentation and code. The purpose is to have all the information gathered in one place instead of scattered. This reference is not an intro. See The Definitive Guide to Yii, Declaring Validation Rules for a tutorial.