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Display a nice exception message on ajax requests

Created 12 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin, updated 12 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.

in Yii versions previous to 1.1.9 exceptions was handled differently during ajax request and displayed by CApplication::displayException(). This way the exception message displayed on ajax requests could not be customized.
The message for the CGridView delete request with YII_DEBUG set to true l...

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Como trasponer una lista creada con CHtml::checkBoxList

Created 12 years ago by rdjteam, updated 12 years ago by rdjteam.

En ciertas ocasiones tenemos que lidiar con el tema de colocar una lista de checkboxes para hacer una seleccion especifica como es el caso de los dias de la semana para un calendario, para esta labor tenemos el comando CHtml::checkBoxList(), revisando un poco el funcionamiento de este temos los siguientes parametros:

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Managing constants easily

Created 12 years ago by briiC.lv, updated 12 years ago by briiC.lv.

/*

    Get class constants by token.
    If you set constants with same prefix, like:
	MY_STATUS_1
	MY_STATUS_2
	MY_STATUS_3
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using multiple radio button

Created 12 years ago by francis ja, updated 9 years ago by Rohit Suthar.

When we use multiple radio buttons with same name in Yii many people have the problem on getting the value of the selected radiobutton. The radioButtonList can be used for that, but if we need to use radioButton itself to place the button any where in a view, we need to include one more parameter in htmloption array().

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Customize CGridView columns directly in your view

Created 11 years ago by clapas, updated 11 years ago by clapas.

You usually take a model instance passed into your view to provide data to a CGridView in this way:

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A simple class to use a different db for a module

Created 12 years ago by tydeas_dr, updated 12 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.

What would you do if you want/need to have a different than the main database connection in an module's models?

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Send asset folder path to a javascript of a widget

Created 12 years ago by sensorario, updated 12 years ago by sensorario.

When you develop a widget, you could need one image that is in the assets folder, you can use it simply within a css. You can load a css or javascript script doing this:

Yii::app()->getClientScript()->registerCssFile($filename);
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Shrink Yii, help your IDE and speed up copying

Created 12 years ago by dckurushin, updated 12 years ago by dckurushin.

yii-1.1.8.r3324 framework directory is 10.4 mb size.

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how to use github (un)official extension repo in your Yii project

Created 12 years ago by RusAlex, updated 12 years ago by RusAlex.

I'm developing a web project for a company using Yii framework. We are using a git vcs in our development process. We like to use Yii extensions. But only if they are good.

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Add model validator in Controller

Created 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

There are cases that model validators should be depended by controller/action and you couldn't manipulate on the model class or using scenarios in easy way

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1:n relations sometimes require CDbCriteria.together

Created 12 years ago by fsb, updated 10 years ago by fsb.

There are situations in which Active Record will generate nonsense queries from what a nieve Yii user might think is reasonable code. One such situation is a CActiveDataProvider using CDbCriteria to get data from parent and 1:n child table with a condition on the child table.

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Change buttons on our CGridView extending yii

Created 12 years ago by sensorario, updated 12 years ago by sensorario.

In this tip, I'll help you to change in few second buttons of your CGridView. I hope you like it =).

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Troubleshooting Rights Extension

Created 12 years ago by junxiong, updated 12 years ago by junxiong.

Rights is one of user interface for Yii's Role Base Access Control extension. It is one of most downloaded extensions in Yii's Web.

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Importing CSV file to mysql table using "LOAD DATA" command.

Created 11 years ago by sirin k, updated 6 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.

hi, Here i am giving you some simple step to import huge data from a csv file to your mysql table.this is useful when you have a very huge data to import from csv format.

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Tags: csv, import, mysql

Using Yii with Oracle through PDO

Created 13 years ago by Trejder, updated 12 years ago by waterloomatt.

When you are developing an webapp with Yii that will be using Oracle RDBMS you should take a look at these issues in which you may run into it.

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Styling Radio Buttons

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 13 years ago by Steve Friedl.

The default behavior with radio button lists is ugly, and I figured out mostly how to style them a coupla different ways. I'll used the blog tutorial example (but with my own posting modes):

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Integrating Yii with Wordpress

Created 12 years ago by isekream, updated 12 years ago by isekream.

Well I finally had some time and tinkered a bit with the notion of integrating wordpress and Yii. Now for me I wanted to use Yii as a framework to develop wordpress plugins. Using some tips from imasia Article I was able to do a simple integration of yii as a wordpress plugin. The integratio...

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Adding a link to a CDataColumn

Created 11 years ago by le_top, updated 11 years ago by le_top.

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.

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Adding a date range search for CGridView the easy way

Created 11 years ago by mikewalen, updated 10 years ago by mikewalen.
  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
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