Wiki articles in category Tips

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A simple action for CJuiAutoComplete

Created 13 years ago by tydeas_dr, updated 12 years ago by Thiago Souza.

Simple as that. I have placed this action in my extension folder like:

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Customizing Yii's formatting rules (extending CFormatter)

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

CFormatter is one of Yii's core components and used to format values displayed in widgets like CGridView or CDetailView. All classic formats like numbers, text, urls or datetime are supported but you may have to use a formatting rule that isn't built in. Let's say we want to display arrays of strings (like tags associated with a product model)...

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Using cache in CActiveDataProvider

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

First param in CActiveDataProvider could be a string with model name or instance of class. So, you may use CActiveRecord::cache() for cache, but you need set third param to 2, because you should cache 2 queries: counting and get data.

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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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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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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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Special $variables in CGridView and CListView

Created 12 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 12 years ago by Steve Friedl.

The popular [CListView] and [CGridView] widgets each take a data provider and iterate over each data object produced, calling the user's code to render each row one at a time, and most are familiar with the use of the $data variable to represent the current model object or array.

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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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Category: Tips

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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Category: Tips

Yii Security-extended guide

Created 12 years ago by bingjie2680, updated 12 years ago by bingjie2680.

This article is called extended guide is because there is already a security guide in the Yii tutorial security section. but that guide is not complete in the sense that it does not rise the developers' attention to some other commonly happening attacks: SQL injection and magic URL, which can be major vulnerabilities in you...

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Using events with CAction classes

Created 12 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 12 years ago by 张 迪.

As you know, events are used by:

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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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How to ensure unicity to url

Created 12 years ago by zaccaria, updated 12 years ago by marcovtwout.

Many time for SEO porpouses is important that each page will have a unique address.

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Category: Tips
Tags: SEO, unique, URL

Use application on production/development environment without making changes

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

I like programing on my localhost, however it really bugged me to make changes to index.php & config files on my production server. After combining all available wiki articles on this topic and some trial and error this is what I use for my applications so I could just upload it to production server and it will work without any changes.

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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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How to catch and log MySQL deadlock errors

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

This method allows to log InnoDB monitor output when deadlock error occured. This way we will have much more useful data to find and fix deadlock.

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Tags: database

关于Yii CHttpSession性能优化篇之源码流程分析

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

当我们使用Yii数据库去保存Session时,只要简单的配置就可以完成这个功能,在进行性能优化这个主题之前,我们先来查看一下CHttpSession和CDBHttpSession源代码,探讨CHttpSession和CDBHttpSession的流程再进行深一步优化主题。

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Change buttons on our CGridView extending yii

Created 12 years ago by sensorario, updated 11 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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Update two models with one view

Created 12 years ago by sensorario, updated 11 years ago by SebK.

Suppose to have two models: Users and Emails. You do not want to store email in a Users model. And User can have 0 or many emails. This is the form generated to create a new user (just username).

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Access log output from unit tests

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

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.

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