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In this wiki I will show how to display data from two tables in Bootstrap TbGridView using dataProvider.

The basic idea is to create a complete mail message and store it a Db table along with all info necessary for sending valid emails (to_email, from_email, from_name, subject etc.)

In order to nicely display flash Messages, create view like this called views/site/dialog.php :

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

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.

CSRF is the acronymn for Cross-site request forgery.
It is an attack which forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which he/she is currently authenticated.

We will use Symfony 2 components for writing tests for Yii project, it's gonna be fun :).

First, you have to have create database table for default language and allowed languages.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_languages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `lang` varchar(2) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `flagpath` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_...

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1. create file common\components\languageSwitcher.php

This is a tutorial for how to auto set model values without any code.

As we know YII is the Leading Framework of PHP. Lots of new developers are starting to use YII day by day. Most of the beginners are little bit confused with how to start with YII . I think this note will help them. Follow the simple steps To run a Yii-powered Web application, you need a Web server that supports PHP 5.1.0.

Next to do is to download the Yii FCKeditor extension, created by Ascomae. Extract the downloaded file, and place the fckeditor/ widget folder in your web applications protected/extensions/ directory.

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Simple Yii Script for performing CRUD operations:

In this article i will explain how to customize log activity in database, Imaging you need to save IP user, Url request and user_name in database,But table created by default with Yii only have id,level,category,logtime and message

To get multi level dropdown menu of using boostrap extension (http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/bootstrap/) widget TbNavbar just follow steps

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Here is a quick tutorial for connecting Yii with Twitter using the Pogostick Yii Extensions Library.

While yiic shell tool is very convenient at generating skeleton code in our application, the generated code is not always what we want. For example, we may want the generated code to carry specific copyright information; we may want to use our own coding style; we may want to add more features; and so on. All these can be accomplished easily in Yii.