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The easiest way to update content in AJAX is to use the renderPartial method.

A few days ago, i worked for CGridView exporting functional for my client. He asked me to create a simple exporting to a CSV file a CGridView search results.

Note: Please also take a look at the newer EMenu extension. This works even better that the deprecated CDropDownMenu!

The customary configuration of a Yii application includes just a single database section in the protected/config/main.php file, but it's easy to extend this to support more than one, tying each Model to one of the databases.

We start slowly and simple...

This tutorial gives you multiple options of how to fully implement showing, sorting and filtering related data in gridviews.

As written on the API docs: An Action Provider Widget is a widget that has declared several actions by using its 'public static function actions()'. After, a Controller can easily import all its declared actions on its 'public function actions()'.

Some times the core validation rules provided by Yii won't satisfy all your needs, so you'll need to create your very own validation rule.

Often used scopes to define criteria in our models. This is a very useful feature as it ensures that in any part of application applying the criteria defined by the scope when called it.

For a long time I have struggled to find a suitable tool for doing server tasks such as compiling LESS files, concatenating and minifying of JavaScript files and copying the minified JavaScript files. While most of these tasks can be done with Yii extensions I would still not recommend using them because it requires you to include these extensions in your project, and therefore also deploying them in your production environment.