There are two ways to run a cron job:

The keywords will be stored in a text field in a comma delimited format. The keywords will be created by the site administrator.

If you want to add module based login to a site without using RBAC, please follow these guidelines.

In this article, we introduce a set of CSS naming conventions that we have applied in several big projects and achieved success. The goal of these naming conventions is to eliminate the possibility of naming conflicts, facilitate debugging and maintenance, and to simplify the naming process.

Often happens to have the need of change a part of the page with ajax.

Almost all the information you need whilst working with yii is written in the Class Reference.

• Install Firebug plugin for Firefox from here.

This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in NetBeans IDE.

Followings are the simple steps to put an analogue clock widget on your skeleton application that is just generated by yiic.

It is a common case coders often come accross. For example the purpose of these checkbox is to mark records to be deleted

I found a better solution.

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

Add these lines in /config/main.php

'components'=>array(
.........
		'db'=>array(
			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database1',
			'emulatePrepare' => true,
			'username' => 'root',
			'password' => 'itsasecret',
			'charset' => 'utf8',
		),
		'db2'=>array(
		    'class' => 'CDbConnection',
			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=databa...

Sometime, in a many-to-many relation, you need to retrieve AR that aren't linked. In practice, AR with null value in the join table. So you implements a criteria like this :

public function scopeUnused( $useAnd = true )
    {
        $join = " left outer join composed_by j on t.ID = j.ID ";
        $condition = ' j.ID Is Null';

Installing WAMP on XP was pretty easy; W7 is not so trivial. It's not difficult once you know, but it took me best part of a day to figure out and required gleaning various bits of information from around the web; this tutorial brings it all together in one place to (hopefully) make other peoples lives that bit easier. It does assume that you are reasonably happy configuring Apache, PHP, and MySQL...

In this article you will find Yii framework extensions enabling you to add various charts/print out buttons etc. to your webapp.

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!

Hello ppl. Even though i have a small experience with yii I though of writing this to help people which want to do something similar.

From: http://lacot.org/ and me.

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).