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It is convenient to use the same identification attribute, say info, in all of the active records of your application. It should be a virtual read-only attribute defined by a getter method, its label being the model name.

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.

Often happens to have the need of change a part of the page with ajax.

There are a few settings and plugins that can enhance the development experience with Yii in PHPStorm or IntelliJ IDEA. This article explains how to get the most out of your IDE.

Often, when writing widgets or editing Yii code, it is unclear whether or not the code is following the MVC pattern.

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Developing custom Grids and ListViews for my new CMS I was facing a small challenge: If I was to update/delete/batch delete items of my Grid, how would I return to the current page view?

Sometimes we need some complicated view to be displayed (such as generating complicated table). Most people suggest that in MVC the View must be as simple as possible (don't have too much loops, etc). So what we have to do is to hide away the complex code by putting it at somewhere else. The following are few places options to keep the function:

Start studying the MVC pattern. You will understand the roles of the model, the view and the controller and know where goes each part of the code.

We often need to display a success page after the user has submitted a form without problem. We may show some welcome message after a user registers a new account. There are many ways to implement this workflow. In this article, I will explain a method that exploits flash messages.

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.

This topic is related with langhandler extension

This will syntax check each php file recursively from the current directory.

So, you have installed a brand new Yii 2 app (basic) or (advanced). Here are a few tips for Apache web server users to get things running more secure and better with your yii2 app.

To get null from database instead of empty strings you need to set up your DB connection as follows:

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.

Generally we need to show one or more fields from a model that is related to another model used in CGridView. For our case we will use two related models, which explain how to use model "A" fields in a CGridView that used model "B".

This article will show you how to add links and class to each node in ctreeview. so you can attach events in js by obtaining handler on anchor or class.

Sometimes the App needs a nicer look & feel, so its necessary to organize the assets for this and Yii can help a lot to make it easy. In this article I provide tips for handling multiple "Designs". I use these three features:

The definition of breadcrumbs according to its documentation is as follow: Breadcrumbs displays a list of links indicating the position of the current page in the whole site hierarchy.