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You usually take a model instance passed into your view to provide data to a CGridView in this way:

If you are coming over from Yii 1.x to Yii 2, and already read this guide, you may note that namespaces are very important in Yii 2 to identify classes. But do you know the list of seeded path aliases that come shipped with a basic or advanced app? Here is my attempt to list them.

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

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);

When using CListView to display multiple views next to each other, we can use the $index variable inside the viewFile to achieve this. As far as i know there is no extension or out-of-the-box functionality for this, so we need to apply a little hack:

yii-1.1.8.r3324 framework directory is 10.4 mb size.

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.

In yii2 we can create form without create FormModel. Here we go

We will leverage Yii2-excelview widget. So, first of all is install Yii2-excelview:

There are cases that model validators should be depended by controller/action and you couldn't manipulate on the model class or using scenarios in easy way

There are situations in which Active Record will generate nonsense queries from what a nieve Yii user might think is reasonable code. One such situation is a CActiveDataProvider using CDbCriteria to get data from parent and 1:n child table with a condition on the child table.

some times we want to show the serialNo on cgridview .

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

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

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.

hi, Here i am giving you some simple step to import huge data from a csv file to your mysql table.this is useful when you have a very huge data to import from csv format.

When you are developing an webapp with Yii that will be using Oracle RDBMS you should take a look at these issues in which you may run into it.

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):

Well I finally had some time and tinkered a bit with the notion of integrating wordpress and Yii. Now for me I wanted to use Yii as a framework to develop wordpress plugins. Using some tips from imasia Article I was able to do a simple integration of yii as a wordpress plugin. The integratio...

Backoffice Grid Views often list information like Posts for a blog while showing at the same time linked information like the User who wrote that post. For more efficiency, it is appropriate that the User is displayed as a link to the User detail page.