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Almost all the information you need whilst working with yii is written in the Class Reference.

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If you are about to create a graph, the best option i would suggest is the jqbargraph.

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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 This article is helpful only if you have the following situation:
 A web app which uses facebook login to login its users and if a user is logged out from his/her facebook account through another browser tab, then your app dont know that he is logged out  out or not from his facebook account and he/she will remain as logged in your web application.Its ok if you have no problem wi...

Facebook iframe app’s session is losing in Internet Explorer when doing a second redirection inside the facebook iframe app.The main reason is ,by default IE wont allow cookies in its priavacy settings If cookies not available means session is also not available for our Facebook iframe app in IE.

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.

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.

If you are testing your app and use urlManager in your config, sometimes you will find a problem: you want to test your site independing from urlManager settings. in that way you need to extend your WebTestCase class by this method:

There are cases that you want to make an ajax request to another server and get the results.

Say, you want to write a test for a component which provides a caching feature. How would you know, that some method of your component returns a cached result? With the solution described here you can inspect all log outputs. So you could search the logs for accesses to the DB to really make sure, that the result was served from cache.

I leverage Kartik's notification widgets.

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

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You can find the english version of this wiki here: The complete beginner's study guide for the Yii Framework.

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.

MultiActiveRecord is an extension that add support for multiple database connection for your application.

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...