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Analyse the server's USER-AGENT against browsecap file to determine it's capability.

Created 9 years ago by Deepak Pradhan, updated 9 years ago by Deepak Pradhan.

Does your application need to know user's details on browser details, os and device type? We can use PHP's misc. function to achieve that provided you have an update copy of browsercap.ini

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Version: 2.0
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Convert JSON data to html table for display on page

Created a year ago by shiv.

I have a calls which help me display json directly in html table.

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Version: all
Category: Tips
Tags: html, JSON

Using PayPal IPN with Yii2

Created 9 years ago by darioo, updated 9 years ago by darioo.

I'm using PayPal's script from

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Customize your Growl/Alert msg easy and quickly

Created 8 years ago by Scott_Huang, updated 8 years ago by Scott_Huang.

I leverage Kartik's notification widgets.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Building a search GET request with scenarios ; calling a SearchModel from URLs...

Created 8 years ago by Louis Gac, updated 8 years ago by Louis Gac.

Search Models are a very elegant and powerful way to build an Active Data Provider. If you use them a lot, you'll quickly need to use scenarios, which will lead you to a very DRY Controller code.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Yii2: Query build for complexity SQL

Created 8 years ago by Scott_Huang, updated 8 years ago by Scott_Huang.

As for complexity SQL query we have two solutions as below, I will discuss #2 in this article.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

A universal model attribute for its synthetic representation

Created 7 years ago by Alexandre Rodichevski, updated 7 years ago by Alexandre Rodichevski.

It is convenient to use the same identification attribute, say info, in all of the active records of your application. It should be a virtual read-only attribute defined by a getter method, its label being the model name.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

REST API and null values in XML

Created 7 years ago by marko60, updated 7 years ago by marko60.

I have been working on a REST API using the excellent tools provided by Yii2. My problem was that I have to differentiate between empty values and null values. In other words, <elem></elem> is different from null as it represents an empty string. Also, although some use <elem/> to represent a null value it should still be interpreted as an empty string. In other cases, the absence of the eleme...

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips
Tags: null, REST, XML

Locking your Yii 2 project package versions with composer.lock

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

Ok, you have installed a Yii 2 basic or advanced app for the first time and completed the post install steps. You have picked up a few extensions to install for the first time as well. You would already see a composer.lock file in your application root folder.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Model validation for field ranges using yii2-field-range extension

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

The yii2-field-range extension enables you to easily setup ActiveField range fields with Bootstrap styling. You basically can setup two attributes joined together like a single field with combined validation error block.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Update and Delete buttons on Breadcrumb

Created 5 years ago by Daniel.

The definition of breadcrumbs according to its documentation is as follow: Breadcrumbs displays a list of links indicating the position of the current page in the whole site hierarchy.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Aadhar Number Validator

Created a year ago by shiv.

In India have Aadhar number an we may need to valid it a input. So I created a validator for yii2

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips
Tags: validator

Install specific Yii2 vendor extension & dependency without updating other packages.

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

The tips here are for advanced usages of composer and its assumed you have read about using composer and have a knowledge of your vendor packages to be updated. Let's consider, you want to update only one specific yii2 vendor library, without updating all the other extension packages?

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Activating Bootstrap 3 Tooltips & Popover for your Yii Site.

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 6 years ago by alrazi.

Step 1: Initialize the Bootstrap Tooltip & Popover plugins in your view layout file @web\views\layouts\main.php. Add this to somewhere in the beginning head section (after you have loaded the Jquery using your AppAsset or something similar).

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

GridView show sum of columns in footer.

Created a year ago by shiv.

GridView show sum of columns in footer `PHP use yii\grid\DataColumn;

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YII2 Pagination Options

Created 9 years ago by VivekYii, updated 9 years ago by VivekYii.

solution here If we are using default pagination option like

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Load & Save With Relation

Created 8 years ago by moo.tensai, updated 8 years ago by moo.tensai.

Use this extension : yii2-relation-trait

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Version: 2.0
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Auto-update denormalized attributes with MongoDb and Yii2

Created 10 years ago by edoardo849, updated 9 years ago by CeBe.

You have different collections in MongoDb with de-normalized attributes. As you may know, due to its not-join nature, MongoDb tends to encourage repetition of the same value in different collections (de-normalization). In this MongoDb is opposed to a more SQL-like approach where you usually reference only the ID of the value with a foreign key.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

How to organize Design "things" in Yii 2 (themes and layout)

Created 5 years ago by s.oli, updated 5 years ago by samdark.

Sometimes the App needs a nicer look & feel, so its necessary to organize the assets for this and Yii can help a lot to make it easy. In this article I provide tips for handling multiple "Designs". I use these three features:

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Step by step for how to full export Yii2 grid to excel

Created 9 years ago by Scott_Huang, updated 9 years ago by Scott_Huang.

We will leverage Yii2-excelview widget. So, first of all is install Yii2-excelview:

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips