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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.

Trying to learn and help some other programmers to find their solutions on the Yii Forum (I think is a superb way to learn the framework), I was facing one challenge with an external library that a fellow programmer wanted to use -quite good indeed: PHPExcel. And what is PHPExcel?

Yii's by-default directory organization works well enough, but there are several steps one can take that improve the security and serviceability of the system, especially in the context of multiple Yii projects on the same machine (including multiple versions of the same project).

For this tutorial I will add a search to the blog demo. The search would be based on Zend Lucene.

In a Web application, we often need to display pages like "about this site", "legal information", whose content are mostly static. There are several approaches to deal with this kind of pages.

This article was rewritten as the README of the Randomness GitHub repo

Info: This tutorial references the idea presented in Jonah's excellent blog article.

If you like the things to be short and clear, then you can skip right to a short summary of instructions at the end of this article.

If you want to add module based login to a site without using RBAC, please follow these guidelines.

This tutorial shows how to filter CListView items by AJAX, and it's compatible with disabled JavaScript users In my case this has been done to filter users list