Implementing a role based access control is a very easy process and you can even load your roles from the database if you want.
Implementing a role based access control is a very easy process and you can even load your roles from the database if you want.
You have a 'Category' model with Id, Name and Visibility (boolean, where 0 = Public, and 1 = Private).
It is quite simple, but I am sure this small tutorial will help more than one of you out there :)
I wrote about this on my blog, but wanted to post it here too.
We all need SEO friendly URLs for our projects. its not always good to call route with params so we can generalise it for all models using a common function.
suppose to have in Mongo a collection "user" like:
There are numerous usability problems:
This How-To is useful if you are planning to move the Yii vendor directory outside the default location.
This wiki will explain how you can use the Field range extension with multiple Bootstrap form layouts (vertical or horizontal). You maybe aware, that the yii2-field-range extension enables you to easily setup ActiveField range fields with Bootstrap styling. You basically can setup two attributes joined together like a single field with combined validation error block.
I am still new to composer and packagist, so I want to share how I am creating the pdf files because for me was not as simple as it should be.
The problem was that all my web applications ran normally on localhost, but on server the Greek characters (or any other no-english characters) displayed with problems.
By default, Yii 2.0 chooses to use the non-minified version of Jquery and Bootstrap files (CSS and JS). However, there's a simple way to indicate Yii to use the minified version.
This wiki is to show you how to use jQuery get and JSON to get data from a dropdown/any form field and fill form fields with the values instantaneously. First, I'll give example use cases of what I'm going to teach you so you can quickly see if this is for you.
I've read many comments that it's not possible to install Yii 2 advanced on a shared hosting environment, as it has two webroots. This is partially true.
1. Create Extension in yii2.
Let's assume we have two models: Customer and Supplier and we want both to log in. Yii is quite flexible when it comes to authentication and authorization so it's possible.
Using a version control system, like Git, is nice. However, when building an extension from scratch and loading it via Composer, it adds a lot of pain in the butt steps. You have to commit your changes, update composer to pull them over, then notice there is an error, fix, commit, update. repeat.. I don't want all my baby steps under Git. Sure, I could edit my commit history, but c'mon. Just let m...
Uploading files in a webapp can be extremely tricky and sometimes the quickest way to do it is to store the file directly in the webserver or into a DNS (like Amazon S3) and then to save the link and the metadata inside a table in the DB. The thing is that you'll have to deal with file permissions, server storage, file management and so on (which is perfectly fine, by the way).
Upon creating my Yii2 Members System, I have ran into a few snags along the way that forced me to extend and bend Yii2 to my will.