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If you are lucky enough and have the privilege to develop on a Linux based environment, this little tip might boost-up your TDD process (at least the Unit Testing part). Please note, that this should work just fine with Apple computers also, but not tested!

The default CFormatter (accessible through Yii::app()->format) is not locale aware, unfortunately. Until it is, here is a quick and easy way to localize it, by extending the default class.

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At first, create a class named SmartyRenderer under application/components or any directory you want.

As a lead developer at Mutable Labs I was tasked to find a way to do recursive deletion in Yii. As I asked other developers and looked around the internet the usual answers all came up, use a plugin or use cascade delete at the DB level, but I did not want to do either of these.

All the basic functionality for an action used by the xupload extension. Check resources for the source code of this action

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The article Fixing extensions without modifying their code reminded me of another patching technique that I used. My conviction and a hard look on the web had led me to an article Redefine PHP class methods or class giving me a head start to do what I wanted: patching third party code without touching the original to allow easy upgrades.

Backoffice Grid Views often list information like Posts for a blog while showing at the same time linked information like the User who wrote that post. For more efficiency, it is appropriate that the User is displayed as a link to the User detail page.

This wiki shall be considered deprecated since the Yii installer for composer has been discontinued.