Wiki articles in category How-tos

Hi Friends, This tutorial may be help us create the custom drop-down menu using CHtml::dropDownList

Yii2 comes with a charming twitter bootstrap version 3. But if it is less, then you can integrate with web templates that you like. One example is wonderfull template "adminLTE"

Using CActiveRecord->updateAll() and CActiveRecord->deleteAll() with scopes and criteria requires some tricks that are explained in this article. While findAll() , find() and some other methods use scopes automatically, updateAll() and deleteAll() do not.

CMenu comes with a lot of great customization options built in. One of the most used is the class 'active' being added to menu item. But, what if you want to add your own class or id to a menu item ?

I have read http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/24/creating-a-dependent-dropdown/ (Dependen Dropdown Yii1), but I can't implement it in Yii2 because Yii2 does not have built-in AJAX functionality hem.. I searched about it and came across this post

1. http://example.com/terms-and-conditions (english)
2. http://example.com/impressum (german)
3. http://example.com/mentions-legales (french)

Are you using the Bootstrap 3 form styles with Yii 2 Active Forms? Have you faced problems in displaying complex layouts which needs you to display multiple inline form fields in a single row, within bootstrap horizontal forms. Then read on.

Here's a simple way to create a Recent comments showing widget to be used in your templates. The idea is just to highlighting your blog's new comments.

Once you have installed and configured the rights extension in your application, you can change the table name from 'User' to any table name you want and similarly for 'username' column to any other column name.

It is quite simple, but I am sure this small tutorial will help more than one of you out there :)

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 could make this work following same useful tips from this post.

Hi,

You have a 'Category' model with Id, Name and Visibility (boolean, where 0 = Public, and 1 = Private).

First of all this is a very common problem, for more details see this post http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/52052-upload-file-with-any-charset/

This wiki shows how to get the geolocation info of the client using another server API It could be write also as extension but there are a lots of APIs that change the below code So, I wrote the below code that works for one of them (using www.geoplugin.net)

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 yii2-datecontrol extension allows you to control separate date formats for display and saving for form inputs.

How to check the online users or how to logout a specific user from your admin panel? This wiki shows how to do that

Your need: You require that for shared machines, the user is authenticated again for a backend access again, if someone is logged in from frontend and vice versa.