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This tutorial assumes some basic knowledge of Yii and a functional development environment.

How many of us has wondered how to create an autocomplete that will display the names of a related models but do require the id of that selected name to be submitted for model creation/update?

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

This article is called extended guide is because there is already a security guide in the Yii tutorial security section. but that guide is not complete in the sense that it does not rise the developers' attention to some other commonly happening attacks: SQL injection and magic URL, which can be major vulnerabilities in your application without much caring.

I would like to provide you a quick tip on how to implement user level access to your Yii applications.

This article will discuss how to setup your web development environment with the following specifications:

When you develop a widget, you could need one image that is in the assets folder, you can use it simply within a css. You can load a css or javascript script doing this:

Sometimes the active form we wish to use to edit/add a new element on our database is too small and we believe that is much better to use an AJAX'ed dialog/slide form rather than reloading the page to just display one or two fields.

We all know how good 'gii' automates the code for us and we normally tend to be happy with what that tool offers at the beginning of our Yii learning curve. But as soon as you start working in larger and larger projects, you realize that its code is too repetitive to maintain and having a small pitfall in general actions means to go over and over through them to fix the issues.

For some applications it can be advantageous for administration reasons to allow site administrators to login as other users. This is sometimes called user impersonation or "becoming that user".