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

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.

If you are hosting Yii behind a reverse proxy, for example nginx, and you are having issues with your logs showing the proxies IP, or the urls being created arn't being created for SSL because your SSL certs are located on your reverse proxy instead of the Yii server, this code may be able to help you. I placed them in the very top of Yii's entry script, index.php

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

Hi I had made simple archive system for blog system that can handle tbl_post. I had used simple CDbCriteria not more than that. I know there is more and many better way to this but I think this will give some idea to users to generate new idea or customized or modified this version of code.

You can find the english version of this wiki here: The complete beginner's study guide for the Yii Framework.

You may face a situation when you need to access to a configurable module's property from everywhere and you don't have an instance of this module's class.

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.

I recently had to have a checkbox column in my grid view that supported the 'disabled' attribute. This was easy enough to do by extending the CCheckBoxColumn. However, I also wanted the checkbox to be selected when clicking on the table's row (supported via CGridView's selectableRows option). I discovered I had to tweak yiigridview.js so that it would not select disabled rows when clicking on it o...

A little hint of how to create a progress bar inside the column of the grid, using the 'bootstrap' extension.

There are several ways to speedup slow unit tests which interact with database:

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...

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

The article Fixing extensions without modifying their code reminded me of another patching technique that I used. My conviction and a hard look on the web had led me to an article [Redefine PHP class methods or class](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137006/ph...

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.

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.

When I used CJuiTabs I did something. They are

If you have to display a overview of related data in a table, you can use the CListView, create your view with table/tr/td tags and implement db-queries in the view to display detaildata of the current (master-)record.