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Making friends' configs, DB credentials and paths with version control

Created 11 years ago by Alexander Palamarchuk, updated 11 years ago by ajsharma.

In many cases developers of one project use their own local environments for coding. There may be a common test platform and, of course, production. All these environments usually have different DB credentials and directory structures (first of all, path to YII framework directory). Another feature is debugging. It's convenient to turn it on for local environments, eventually - on the test s...

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips
Tags: config

Setting static modules' properties in config

Created 11 years ago by Alexander Palamarchuk, updated 11 years ago by Alexander Palamarchuk.

You may face a situation when you need to access to a configurable module's property from everywhere and you don't have an instance of this module's class.

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips
Tags: config, module

An easy way to use escopes and CActiveDataProvider

Created 13 years ago by Rafael Garcia, updated 13 years ago by Rafael Garcia.

Often used scopes to define criteria in our models. This is a very useful feature as it ensures that in any part of application applying the criteria defined by the scope when called it.

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Speedup unit tests by moving MySql data to memory (in Ubuntu)

Created 11 years ago by seb, updated 11 years ago by François Gannaz.

There are several ways to speedup slow unit tests which interact with database:

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Create URL to language switcher anchor with langhandler

Created 9 years ago by Anas AbuDayah, updated 9 years ago by Anas AbuDayah.

This topic is related with langhandler extension

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Using MBMenu and Rights to automatically create menu item for your modules

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

Using Rights generator component, we can easily create a dynamic menu, in which we scan every modules' controllers, to access the index page of them.

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Yii CDBHttpSession数据库存储session性能优化实战

Created 12 years ago by Darwin Wen, updated 12 years ago by Darwin Wen.

上一篇 关于 Yii CHttpSession性能优化篇之源码流程分析 有详细分析CHttpSession执行流程,在了解CHttpSession的详细执行流程之后,我们就可以非常轻松的扩展Yii Session,来优化和符合自己的业务流程。

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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

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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Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

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

Yii实战中8个必备常用的扩展,模块和

Created 13 years ago by Darwin Wen, updated 13 years ago by Darwin Wen.

在经过畅K网的实战后,总结一下在Yii的项目中会经常用到的组件和一些基本的使用方法,分享给大家,同时也给自己留个备忘录,下面我以代码加图片说明.

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Version: 1.1
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

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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Customizing the CMenu Widget

Created 10 years ago by mistryb, updated 9 years ago by mistryb.

The CMenu class provides some useful features for generating menus in your web application.

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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
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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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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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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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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
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