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This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in NetBeans IDE.

When you define or extend a class, you can create class variables and methods in Yii just like you can in any other PHP system:

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.

It's very common to see new Yii users confusing the relations HAS_ONE and BELONGS_TO, and getting it wrong means you won't get proper values back. And though we'll talk about HAS_MANY as well, we're specifically omitting the MANY_MANY relation because it's a whole different animal.

This article will explain how to create a REST API with the Yii framework.

If you have to display a overview of related data in a table, you can use the CListView, create your view with table/tr/td tags and implement db-queries in the view to display detaildata of the current (master-)record.

In this tutorial we will learn how to realize a create interface using a dialog.

Many newcomers to Yii ask about the assets/ directory found under the webroot, and this article means to explain why it's there and how to work with it.

Authentication and Authorization is a good tutorial. Among other topics, it describes basic aspects of Yii's RBAC implementation. But however hard I read the tutorial, I couldn't understand how exactly the hierarchy works. I found how to define authorization hierarchy, how business rules are evaluated, how to configure authManager, but almost nothing about how I should build my hierarchy, in what sequence its nodes are checked, when the checking process stops and what would be the checking result.

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