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

Often you'll need a form with two dropdowns, and one dropdown's values will be dependent on the value of the other dropdown. Using Yii's built-in AJAX functionality you can create such a dropdown.

Hello ppl. Even though i have a small experience with yii I though of writing this to help people which want to do something similar.

This wiki is a step-by-step example explaining how the controller, model and the view's CGridView work together. It explains simple things - as well as more complex things that you will anyway quickly have to know. So, even if you don't use dynamic gridviews, take a morning off and thoroughly work through this tutorial. It should save you lots of struggling.

This tutorial shows how to filter CListView items by AJAX, and it's compatible with disabled JavaScript users In my case this has been done to filter users list

Since I used CGridView for a first time, I didn't like how it handled operations like sorting, filtering, changing page and etc using AJAX.

CGridView (or CListView) together with CActiveDataProvider is a very powerful combination of the built-in tools of Yii. But how do they work together to accomplish their fantastic functions? And what are you expected to do to use them and to customize their behaviors? This article explains the very basics of them.

This example uses a MySQL DB with a table named tree with the fields id, name, and parent_id. The parent_id will be NULL for root elements. The SQL is kept simple (no autoinc, no FK, etc).

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

With Yii you can use one CActiveForm for collecting data for two or more models with ajax validation and client validation.