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When we use multiple radio buttons with same name in Yii many people have the problem on getting the value of the selected radiobutton. The radioButtonList can be used for that, but if we need to use radioButton itself to place the button any where in a view, we need to include one more parameter in htmloption array().

If you're using a lot of bower and npm assets with Yii 2.0 you might encounter long running composer update tasks.

There are some very advanced grids in the Yii2 community, specifically Kartik's amazing gridview extensions but they all designed for interactive screen use.

If you're working a lot with extensions you often stumble upon problems, when you want to include them into your custom web application, like hardcoded or absolute path aliases or classes extended from core application components, which implement addiditonal features.

1. Create an Active Record Behavior that builds the criteria for the search() method and attach it to your model
2. Modify the search() method of the model to merge the behavior's criteria in with the rest of the searchable attributes
3. Modify the _search form view to add the date range inputs

After Installing Yii Users and Rights to Newly Created Yii app we have to assign dynamic roles to a user at the time of user creation .

Let's say, for example, that you are developing a blog or some kind of CMS and you want to track the number of times each post was viewed (maybe to show a list of the most viewed ones).

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

What would you do if you want/need to have a different than the main database connection in an module's models?

In this tip, I'll help you to change in few second buttons of your CGridView. I hope you like it =).

This artical is related to allow user to filter CGridView with date range using datepicker on submit button. Here I use Yii Cookie to preserve date in datepicker textbox after submitting the form.

As you know, events are used by:

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

The default behavior with radio button lists is ugly, and I figured out mostly how to style them a coupla different ways. I'll used the blog tutorial example (but with my own posting modes):

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.

Many people want to use downloaded extensions in their own way. As for me most of the extensions require me to correct Yii::import() instructions inside their source code. All these extensions are directory dependent. To avoid the situation described above, I suggest to implement pseudo-anonymous aliases:

// take the curr...

My article Display the full record in a CJuiDialog uses ajax to view a record in dialog on clicking the 'view-icon'.

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.

The problem: If you type Yii::app()->user<ctrl+space> code completion didn't work. This solve it.