Wiki articles in category How-tos

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Nested inline active fields inside Bootstrap horizontal forms

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

Are you using the Bootstrap 3 form styles with Yii 2 Active Forms? Have you faced problems in displaying complex layouts which needs you to display multiple inline form fields in a single row, within bootstrap horizontal forms. Then read on.

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Version: 2.0
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Getting information from the current locale

Created 5 years ago by CeBe, updated 5 years ago by CeBe.

Yii 2.0 comes with a formatter component to format dates, numbers, and other values for international users according to their locale. This is very useful for displaying data. When working with incoming data or when using enhanced input methods like the [MaskedInput widget](https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/2.0/yii-widgets-maskedinp...

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How to implement form events

Created 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 8 years ago by deacs.

You have that, when a product is on development they can change its API anytime. This change is quite important though, its related on how to set the events of your form, for example, the useful beforeSubmit.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos
Tags: Forms, How to, yii2

UUID instead of an auto-increment integer for ID with Active Record

Created 4 years ago by grigori, updated 3 years ago by samdark.

I have an API. It's built with a RESTful extension over Active Record, and some endpoints provide PUT methods to upload files. By a REST design we create an entity with POST /video first, and then upload a video file with PUT /video/{id}/data.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to Create and Use Validator Using Regular expressions

Created a year ago by aayushmhu.

There are Multiple Ways to Create a Validator But here we use Regular Expression or JavaScript Regular Expression or RegExp for Creation Validators. In this article, we will see the most Frequently Used Expression

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

yii2-app-advanced on single domain (Apache, Nginx)

Created 9 years ago by MadAnd, updated 2 years ago by QuPsi.

If you develop rather complex applications with Yii2, you might already be familiar with yii2-app-advanced application template. Well, the template is awesome and provides high flexibility regarding code/configuration sharing among parts of an application.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Single PHP entry point with Nginx

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

In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.

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Version: all
Category: How-tos

MongoDb's embedded documents mapping for ActiveRecord in Yii2

Created 10 years ago by edoardo849, updated 9 years ago by CeBe.

suppose to have in Mongo a collection "user" like:

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in Yii advanced app

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 8 years ago by Kartik V.

Your need: You require that for shared machines, the user is authenticated again for a backend access again, if someone is logged in from frontend and vice versa.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Integrating ZF2 into Yii - use case demonstrated

Created 10 years ago by Boaz, updated 9 years ago by Boaz.

I needed to use a class from ZF2 in my Yii project. I've read probably all there is about this subject and still I needed lots of trial & errors to get it working, probably due to my lack of experience working with namepsaces and ZF2 in general. Also, the resources on the web are all partial, at best. Most simply refer to ZF1 where things are technically different. When I got it all working I de...

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Start using Yii2 in Raspberry Pi3 (RPI3) via Pantahub

Created 3 years ago by sirin k, updated 3 years ago by sirin k.

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Using multiple models in an identity

Created 5 years ago by samdark, updated 2 years ago by Néstor Acevedo.

Let's assume we have two models: Customer and Supplier and we want both to log in. Yii is quite flexible when it comes to authentication and authorization so it's possible.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to install Yii 2 advanced on a shared hosting environment

Created 8 years ago by oligalma, updated 4 years ago by oligalma.

I've read many comments that it's not possible to install Yii 2 advanced on a shared hosting environment, as it has two webroots. This is partially true.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

A Single Page with a List and a Detail

Created 7 years ago by softark, updated 7 years ago by Patrick Jones.

The CRUD generator of Gii has done a wonderful job for you, and you already have a list of items in the "index" page and a detailed view of a specified item in the "view" page.

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Version: 2.0
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How to implement cron in Yii 2

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

In advance template there is already a file yii. And there is no need to run it as php, it is Linux script.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos
Tags: console, cron, yii2

Yii2 and Pdf files with Mpdf

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

I am still new to composer and packagist, so I want to share how I am creating the pdf files because for me was not as simple as it should be.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Profiling using XDebug

Created 10 years ago by le_top, updated 8 years ago by le_top.

A short explication on how to extract profile information for PHP on your server using XDebug and KCacheGrind or WinCacheGrind.

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Version: all
Category: How-tos

Yii2: Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in Yii Advanced Application Template

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

This is as an extension of this wiki by Kartik V which shows to make different enableAutoLogin cookies for frontend and backend.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Escape from Default's Yii2 Delete Confirm Box

Created 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 8 years ago by Cozumel.

If you started playing with Yii2's new GridView, you will soon realize that some things have improved quite a lot, but I am sure its going to be a bit confusing at first glance when you try to modify certain javascript behaviors like for example, its delete confirmation dialog box.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Creating a Dependent Dropdown From Scratch in Yii2

Created 9 years ago by ThePr0f3550r, updated 6 years ago by alrazi.

I have read http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/24/creating-a-dependent-dropdown/ (Dependen Dropdown Yii1), but I can't implement it in Yii2 because Yii2 does not have built-in AJAX functionality hem.. I searched about it and came across this post

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Category: How-tos