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Some of you have experienced the need to log some information while doing unit testing, due to the fact that the information given in the summary is just not enough, to know why the test is actually failing. this article focuses on 2 ways to get you logs up and running again.

While this is not a wiki article about a specific Yii topic, here is the list with more Yii FAQs:

How to create a simple (non-RBAC) authorization system

The Yii documentation states:

When someone want to send formatted HTML mails from a console application she/he will probably come across the problem of rendering view files.

Since Yii 1.0.5 you can use named scopes with ActiveRecords. They are a great help in simplifying your query calls.

Here is a quick tutorial for connecting Yii with Twitter using the Pogostick Yii Extensions Library.

This is a simple example that will give you a base for designing a database driven menu system that will use CMenu to be rendered.

Note: this tutorial requires Yii 1.0.8 or later.

The issue is covered in "The Definite Guide to Yii" (Error Handling - Handling Errors Using an Action).