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REST API and null values in XML

Created 9 years ago by marko60 marko60, updated 9 years ago by marko60 marko60. 0 comments

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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Locking your Yii 2 project package versions with composer.lock

Created 12 years ago by Kartik V Kartik V, updated 12 years ago by Kartik V Kartik V. 0 comments

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

Created 12 years ago by Kartik V Kartik V, updated 12 years ago by Kartik V Kartik V. 0 comments

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

Created 12 years ago by Kartik V Kartik V, updated 12 years ago by Kartik V Kartik V. 0 comments

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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Auto-update denormalized attributes with MongoDb and Yii2

Created 12 years ago by edoardo849 edoardo849, updated 12 years ago by CeBe CeBe. 0 comments

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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