Wiki articles in category Tips

Showing 61-80 of 162 items.

Adding Yii Search to Your Browser Search Box

Created 13 years ago by qiang, updated 6 years ago by CeBe.

The official Yii project site now supports OpenSearch. This means you can customize your browser's search box to enable direct search of the content in yiiframework.com. For example, by entering a Yii class name in the browser's search box, the corresponding class API page will be shown in the browser.

25 0
6 followers
Viewed: 63 493 times
Version: all
Category: Tips

Yii code completion and calltips in Komodo Edit

Created 13 years ago by viter, updated 13 years ago by wei.

My favourite editor is Komodo Edit (free and crossplatform) and I use it for my everyday coding work. Just recently I found out how to make it help me to work with Yii. :) So follow these steps:

5 0
3 followers
Viewed: 14 641 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Update Gridview with Dropdown Selection

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

I recently worked on updating the content of a gridview based on the selection of a dropdown menu. I thought I should share it in the forum...

0 0
4 followers
Viewed: 16 975 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Preventing CJuiTabs from hiding drop-down CMenu items

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 13 years ago by RusAlex.

Almost all Yii applications use CMenu at the top of each page to show options available to the user, and many include drop-down components to allow more fine-grained selection.

4 0
3 followers
Viewed: 15 320 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Search method of a model for filters when using dates - unixtimestamp in database

Created 13 years ago by Mukke, updated 12 years ago by jwerner.

I ran into a problem and on irc we worked it out. Since there is a lack on information on filters in genral i thought i'd start sharing all my findings, might be usefull for other people.

10 0
11 followers
Viewed: 37 260 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

htmlOptions explained for various controls.

Created 13 years ago by Woil, updated 13 years ago by Woil.

Most controls that are rendered by CHtml have an argument called $htmlOptions. This argument is an array that holds the attributes of the HTML element. For example the following code:

15 0
14 followers
Viewed: 65 860 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Functional tests independing from your urlManager settings

Created 13 years ago by RusAlex, updated 13 years ago by RusAlex.

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:

0 0
4 followers
Viewed: 12 397 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

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...

1 1
4 followers
Viewed: 17 452 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips
Tags: config

URL component access functions

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 13 years ago by Steve Friedl.

Many applications wish to obtain parts of the URL for the current page (the hostname, the query string, etc.), and the CHttpRequest class wraps various $_SERVER variables to break down the URL into its constituent parts.

28 0
16 followers
Viewed: 19 069 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips
Tags: request, URL

A simple action for XUpload extension

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

All the basic functionality for an action used by the xupload extension. Check resources for the source code of this action

3 0
5 followers
Viewed: 20 239 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

using jqbargraph to create beautiful graphs

Created 11 years ago by MAHESH.E.U, updated 11 years ago by MAHESH.E.U.

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

5 0
9 followers
Viewed: 11 452 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

CjuiDatepicker

Created 11 years ago by hiral darji, updated 11 years ago by hiral darji.

If you have two datepicker in one form and you want that a date of from date shold be minimum date of todate then put following code in Cjuidatepicker widget options array:

'onSelect'=>'js:function(selected) {
$("#HostelRoomStatusMaster_room_status_master_end_date").datepicker("option","minDate",selected);
				}',
1 0
5 followers
Viewed: 11 462 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Search scenario (CGridView, etc.): avoid default values from database as search condition.

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

Yii has a neat "trick" that will assign default values to new CActiveRecords. When performing a search() though, this is pretty annoying as they automatically apply as filter values.

1 0
2 followers
Viewed: 11 018 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

How to use a component before every action of a controller

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

I guess this is a tip on how to execute some code before every action in a controller, because I will tell you how I did it and maybe you can use the idea in your project.

2 0
4 followers
Viewed: 50 607 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Aadhar Number Validator

Created a year ago by shiv.

In India have Aadhar number an we may need to valid it a input. So I created a validator for yii2

1 1
1 follower
Viewed: 67 930 times
Version: 2.0
Category: Tips
Tags: validator

Useful Multilanguage extensions collection and use.

Created 10 years ago by cihappy, updated 9 years ago by Rohit Suthar.

What I want to achieve:

2 0
3 followers
Viewed: 9 923 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Create thermometer using rgraph

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

Hi friends,

2 0
4 followers
Viewed: 12 537 times
Version: Unknown (update)
Category: Tips

New Relic Error Alert with Yii

Created 10 years ago by simon604, updated 9 years ago by razvanphp.

Introduction

2 0
4 followers
Viewed: 20 636 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

Custom column in TbGridView with icon by condition, find out icon class glyphicons easy (YiiBooster)

Created 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 9 years ago by Rohit Suthar.
2 0
5 followers
Viewed: 41 499 times
Version: 1.1
Category: Tips

How to change GridView delete confirmation message for specific controllers only?

Created 8 years ago by AlaFalaki, updated 8 years ago by AlaFalaki.

Hello,
If you want to give extra attention for some specific delete actions and you don't want to override whole yii.confirm JS method here is what you can do:
(I've only put the ActionColumn part of the GridView here to just give you the idea)

3 0
4 followers
Viewed: 46 076 times
Version: 2.0
Category: Tips