I found a standard Yii app's protected folder structure nearly perfect. With a few simple moves and a little bit change to the code, I managed to bring it to the level, which I found as fully perfect. I want to share my point of view, in case someone would like to use this structure as well.

To accomplish the task of changing Migration table's name, by default tbl_migration, you need to add the following in your ./protected/config/console.php.

This article shows a quick and easy way to implement flat user access control system. Flat means, that user access is controlled by level only, which is solution exactly opposite to complex RBAC access systems.

This wiki shall be considered deprecated since the Yii installer for composer has been discontinued.

Hi guys.

If you have two datepicker in one form and you want that a date of from date shold be minimum date of todate then put following code in Cjuidatepicker widget options array:

'onSelect'=>'js:function(selected) {
$("#HostelRoomStatusMaster_room_status_master_end_date").datepicker("option","minDate",selected);
				}',

If you are about to create a graph, the best option i would suggest is the jqbargraph.

Step1: Download the extension from path 'http://code.google.com/p/yii-mail/downloads/list' .

For a long time I have struggled to find a suitable tool for doing server tasks such as compiling LESS files, concatenating and minifying of JavaScript files and copying the minified JavaScript files. While most of these tasks can be done with Yii extensions I would still not recommend using them because it requires you to include these extensions in your project, and therefore also deploying them...

A time ago i've met the issue that Yii doesn't run any client-side form validation when submitting the form by CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton. The small javascript below helps to fix it.

This is the code in the View.

<?php echo CHtml::link('MyDialog', Yii::app()->createUrl('site/page'), array('class' => 'openDlg divDialog')); ?>
<?php
$this->beginWidget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDialog', array('id'=>'divDialog',
	'options'=>array( 'title'=>Yii::t('Dialog Title', 'autoOpen'=>false, 'modal'=>true, 'width'=>600)));
?>
	<div class="divForForm"></div>
<?php
$this->endWidget(...

The Yii Framework is very powerful and it provides a lot of functionality right from the pre-built webapp. One of the nice things that is already established for you as a developer is the Login authentication. While the default configuration simply sets it up to run against an array of hard coded usernames and passwords, the [Yii Blog Tutorial](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/prototype...

This is second article with my tutorial. I had to add it, because Wiki article has limited length and as I was extending it's text, older paragraphs were disappearing. So here I am starting from chapter 6.

1. Create an Active Record Behavior that builds the criteria for the search() method and attach it to your model
2. Modify the search() method of the model to merge the behavior's criteria in with the rest of the searchable attributes
3. Modify the _search form view to add the date range inputs

Backoffice Grid Views often list information like Posts for a blog while showing at the same time linked information like the User who wrote that post. For more efficiency, it is appropriate that the User is displayed as a link to the User detail page.

This article tries to explain the steps required in integrating the HybridAuth into Yii directly, without using an extension.

The article Fixing extensions without modifying their code reminded me of another patching technique that I used. My conviction and a hard look on the web had led me to an article [Redefine PHP class methods or class](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137006/ph...

If you're working a lot with extensions you often stumble upon problems, when you want to include them into your custom web application, like hardcoded or absolute path aliases or classes extended from core application components, which implement addiditonal features.