Wiki articles in category Tips

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Provide SVG when the browser supports it, else PNG (using CHtml::image overload)

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

Modern browsers support SVG, older browsers do not. This replacement for CHtml::image() allows you to handle to propose SVG in an efficient way with PNG as a fallback.

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Version: 1.1
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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
Category: Tips

Yii Rights Management Tips

Created 9 years ago by Rajith R, updated 9 years ago by Rajith R.

yii rights some tips..

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Search a file size range in CGridView

Created 10 years ago by CrazyCat, updated 10 years ago by CrazyCat.
  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
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Category: Tips

Interview Questions For YII2

Created 2 years ago by aayushmhu, updated 5 months ago by aayushmhu.

Hey Everyone, In this post I Just shared my Experience what most of interviewer ask in YII2 Interview.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips
Tags: interview

Understanding series articles

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

Here are all wiki articles from "Understanding" series by Yii wiki contributors:

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

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

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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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

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

Selecting best language based on Browser language and available languages.

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

Your application is international and you have to select the best language for the user. Your user may have selected 'fr_CA' and you have 'fr_FR' or 'fr' available. What do you do? Here is a tip.

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

How to preload dropdowns in CForm

Created 10 years ago by transistor, updated 10 years ago by transistor.

So you want to use CForm (form builder), but need to preload dropdowns in a form? It's simpler than it seems.
You got your CFormModel, CForm and the actual Form, right?
Let's say you have the typical State -> City dependent dropdowns, so you would want to load the from with the State and City selected.

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Category: Tips

Things to Consider when application hosting on AppFog

Created 9 years ago by VINAY Kr. SHARMA, updated 9 years ago by VINAY Kr. SHARMA.

I faced many issues when hosted our company website on AppFog.

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

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

How to call a default layout for every module and how to work <php echo $content; ?>

Created 10 years ago by Ankit Modi, updated 10 years ago by Ankit Modi.

Hi Friends, Hi Friends, Some common question is difficult to how to create the layout on yii and how to work

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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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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
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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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Version: 2.0
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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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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Multi Data Provider

Created 10 years ago by Sharon Lavie, updated 8 years ago by Sharon Lavie.

Lately, i needed to deal with the following scenario: read from two databases (db1,db2), and write to a third database (db3).

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips