Wiki articles in category Tutorials

This wiki explains how to add summary data from related models into your Yii Framework 2.0 gridview with filtering and sorting by the summary columns.

This example uses a MySQL DB with a table named tree with the fields id, name, and parent_id. The parent_id will be NULL for root elements. The SQL is kept simple (no autoinc, no FK, etc).

A simple and effective way to keep track what your users are doing within your application is to log their activities related to database modifications. You can log whenever a record was inserted, changed or deleted, and also when and by which user this was done. For a [CActiveRecord] Model you could use a behavior for this purpose. This way you will be able to add log functionality to ActiveRecor...

Todos los que hemos empezado a utilizar Yii para crear aplicaciones Web, nos hemos dado de bruces cuando hemos intentado poner a funcionar el RBAC (acceso de control basado en roles).

This tutorial gives you multiple options of how to fully implement showing, sorting and filtering related data in gridviews.

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With yii you're able to create ajax requests and updates easily. But most times you always want to show a loading indicatior to your user.

You have a multilingual application, and you want the URL of a page to be different for different languages, to account for SEO. The URL for the contact page for example should look like http://something.com/en/contact in english, and http://something.com/de/contact in german. This tutorial describes how to make it happen.
Note that currently selected language is always a part...

Use SQL SERVER 2000, the date format not like: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss. So I change to use SQL SERVER 2008 EXPRESS.

You have to extend the widget class and configure it for user login widget

Sometimes we get lost trying to search by a HAS_MANY relation using CActiveRecord or CActiveDataProvider in Yii 1.1. This article is a series of drills that try to describe the practical techniques of searching by a HAS_MANY relation.

Hi, I was having problems each time I had to test the site or edit something on my local machine, like changing the db connection, change the debug mode to false, the trace level to 0, disable Gii, etc. So I created a class to resolve all my problems, hope to help you in your projects!

This tutorial will show you how to create Ajax dialog which allows to create new model, update or delete existing model. It works with simple links, CGridView button column links, adds a minimal amount of code and degrades gracefully with JavaScript turned off.

This tutorial shows how to filter CListView items by AJAX, and it's compatible with disabled JavaScript users
In my case this has been done to filter users list

This article explains issues about installing XAMPP server package (Lite version) on Windows OS and configuring it for serving webapps written in Yii. Please note, that XAMPP is available for many more platforms and systems. I write about Windows edition as it was the only one tested by me.

Hi Folks,

    For each column of the CGridView, we can specify name, value, htmlOptions, cssClassExpression etc. In the declarations of the attributes value and cssClassExpression we can use the "special" variable $data, for example like this:
'value'=>'$data->author->username',.
    Now we might want to use $data in the declaration of the `...

Few days ago i was playing with TCPF plugin to create a PDF files. Since i have checked few available extension and also checked some forum threads but still i dont get my expected result for PDF file.

The yii2-detail-view extension offers you an easy way to EDIT and VIEW your model data, toggle these modes, and adds other features. You can read the extension documentation and/or view a demo of this extension, to understand usage.

Here's a simple way to create a breadcrumb widget to be used in your templates. The idea is just to isolate how the breadcrumb is generated based on an array of crumbs.