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I had some troubles with the password confirmation field for when adding updating user records, so i thought that i should share the way i got it working.

This article was rewritten as the README of the Randomness GitHub repo

There Is Now A cpasswordhelper Class In system.utils at GitHub that provides an API to simplify the use of crypt() for password storage. While this wiki article remains valid, it will in due course be rewritten to refer to the new class as well as explain how it works.

In this article I will show you how to implement a secure password hashing mechanism in your Yii projects using a bCrypt class.

I recently created a project called Yii-App on GitHub to kickstart my development of smaller Yii applications. The main goal of the project is to provide a ready-to-use application template that includes my bootstrap extension and many other useful extensions. After reading this article you will be able to use this project as a starting point for all of your Yii projects.

Sometimes you need to force a user to change their password after x number of days. This article describes how to implement this using a filter, ChangePasswordFilter.