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I discovered Twitter Bootstrap almost two years ago. After trying it out for a while I fell in love with it. It didn't take long before I realized that it would be great to write an extension that allowed developers to start using Bootstrap in their Yii projects. One night I sat down and started writing what later became my now popular bootstrap extension. Now that the extension is quite widely used in the community I felt that it was time to write about how to use Bootstrap to its full potential. If you use the Bootstrap CSS files you're really missing out on some great features. After reading this article you'll be able to take full advantage of Bootstrap using LESS.

Use SQL SERVER 2000, the date format not like: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss. So I change to use SQL SERVER 2008 EXPRESS.

Sometimes text inside a gridview column is just too long. That's why I figured out a way to make the column smaller while still providing the information.

***note : only for linux users.

This tutorial will show you how to create Ajax dialog. It's very simple code.

A time ago i've met the issue that Yii doesn't run any client-side form validation when submitting the form by CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton. The small javascript below helps to fix it.

If in your application you have to proceed to a complex SQL query that is not associated to a model, you will use CDbDataReader like it is described in the Yii documentation. An example could be

I guess this is a tip on how to execute some code before every action in a controller, because I will tell you how I did it and maybe you can use the idea in your project.

When an exception is thrown in our code like

A short explication on how to extract profile information for PHP on your server using XDebug and KCacheGrind or WinCacheGrind.