Wiki articles in category Tips

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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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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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embedded javascript block in your view with IDE checking or intellisense

Created 9 years ago by yiqing95, updated 9 years ago by yiqing95.

this is my way for embed js code block in view file:

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Using Nginx and Apache2 in separate distributed servers (ie, Amazon EC2 instances)

Created 10 years ago by Luis Lobo Borobia, updated 6 years ago by Luis Lobo Borobia.

We are running one frontend running NGINX and several app servers running Apache2. There are several issues we have come across but right now I'll be documenting one of them. I'll be completing this article when I get more time.

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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Category: Tips
Tags: null, REST, XML

My Own Components Folder in Yii2

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

In Yii1 I used to have my own components under the components folder of the structure, now with namespacing this is a little bit different.

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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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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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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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Boost composer-asset-plugin update speed

Created 7 years ago by schmunk, updated 7 years ago by samdark.

If you're using a lot of bower and npm assets with Yii 2.0 you might encounter long running composer update tasks.

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Key web server settings after installing a fresh Yii 2 basic or advanced app

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

So, you have installed a brand new Yii 2 app (basic) or (advanced). Here are a few tips for Apache web server users to get things running more secure and better with your yii2 app.

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Yii2 default values for Index data Provider

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

Guys,

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Yii2 Report Grid

Created 6 years ago by Chris Backhouse, updated 6 years ago by Chris Backhouse.

There are some very advanced grids in the Yii2 community, specifically Kartik's amazing gridview extensions but they all designed for interactive screen use.

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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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