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Let's say we have two models and relation between them:

A few days ago, i worked for CGridView exporting functional for my client. He asked me to create a simple exporting to a CSV file a CGridView search results.

We can use a CJuiDatePicker for a CGridView inline filter.

This tip created in conjunction with IRC #yii channel users emilsedgh and tydeas - thanks!

I ran into a problem and on irc we worked it out. Since there is a lack on information on filters in genral i thought i'd start sharing all my findings, might be usefull for other people.

As I'm new to the framework (2 weeks) - I tried to build a functionallity I already use a lot in my old framework (PRADO). This means combining a GridView with a form. And this in one page, what allows you to select a record from the grid and view the values in the same page without jumping to a new page.

In this tip, I'll help you to change in few second buttons of your CGridView. I hope you like it =).

This artical is related to allow user to filter CGridView with date range using datepicker on submit button. Here I use Yii Cookie to preserve date in datepicker textbox after submitting the form.

CButtonColumn in CGridView can be customised to include user built buttons. To learn a great deal about including custom buttons, read this excellent wiki. This tutorial will show how to call an action from one custom button using AJAX instead of regular GET calls.

You usually take a model instance passed into your view to provide data to a CGridView in this way: