This article explains how to easily turn standard text-line validation errors into beautifully and professionally looking Twitter Bootstrap's Popovers.

Yiinitializr\Helpers\Initializer::create('./../', 'frontend', array(

// will override frontend configuration file
__DIR__ .'/../../common/config/main.php', // merged with
__DIR__ .'/../../common/config/env.php', // merged with
__DIR__ .'/../../common/config/local.php' // merged with

))->run(); `

Yiinitializr\Cli namespace

This namespace brings utilities to interact with...

I guess this is a tip on how to execute some code before every action in a controller, because I will tell you how I did it and maybe you can use the idea in your project.

This page explains how to implement an event and catch that event in a behavior.

In this wiki, I try to implement a simple authorization schema without putting much logic inside a file or into database table. We are constructing authorization hierarchy inside the controller. We are getting roles for the current user from database table and assigning only roles to user that are declared in the particular controller. We have brought down the work of loading of auth data at ma...

Changing the way a CGridView is rendered from the configuration file, or through behaviors specified at the moment it is used, is handy to extend a CGridView without creating tons of different classes for it. I am surprised that this is not in the default implementation, so I made my default CGridView implementation.

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...