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This solution requires Yii 1.1.9 or above

A simple trick to get the localized version of a model field is to add this little method to your models.

I've seen a lot of people asking about the logging facilities in Yii and thought I'd share a nice little class I wrote that provides near real-time logging.

Install a Wordpress site (mine is in "http://localhost/test/wordpress")

To get null from database instead of empty strings you need to set up your DB connection as follows:

Sometimes the right place to store application data is in a join table. For example, movie viewers either like or don’t like the movies they watched.

Yii makes it really easy for all to use their already made objects that automate everything we do. It provides also great power of flexibility and styling but hey, we programmers tend to complicate our lives and push a little more the power of our tools.

The popular CListView and CGridView widgets each take a data provider and iterate over each data object produced, calling the user's code to render each row one at a time, and most are familiar with the use of the $data variable to represent the current model object or array.

I wanted to keep all the I18N related translations in separate files, so that I would not need to modify the view files or the model files every time I need to update or fix the translations of application's source language.

My article Display the full record in a CJuiDialog uses ajax to view a record in dialog on clicking the 'view-icon'.