Wiki articles in category How-tos

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How to email error logs to developer on Yii2 apps

Created 3 years ago by Gabriel A. López López.

Logging is a very important feature of the application. It let's you know what is happening in every moment. By default, Yii2 basic and advanced application have just a \yii\log\FileTarget target configured.

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How to redirect all emails to one inbox on Yii2 applications

Created 3 years ago by Gabriel A. López López.

\yii\mail\BaseMailer::useFileTransport is a great tool. If you activate it, all emails sent trough this mailer will be saved (by default) on @runtime/mail instead of being sent, allowing the devs to inspect thre result.

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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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How to add Open Graph and Twitter Card tags to Yii2 website.

Created 3 years ago by Gabriel A. López López.

OpenGraph and Twitter Cards are two metadata sets that allow to describe web pages and make it more understandable for Facebook and Twitter respectively.

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

Automatic Parameter Binding to POST vars in Yii2

Created 10 years ago by aarondfrancis, updated 9 years ago by YiiJeka.

I wrote about this on my blog, but wanted to post it here too.

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How to use BootstrapInterface

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

Yii2 introduces the BootstrapInterface to ease our application initialization tasks, whether they are composer based or Application bootstrap (do not mistaken with Bootstrap CSS Framework) based tasks. On this article, I am going to explain how to use it on y...

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Displaying, Sorting and Filtering Model Relations on a GridView

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

One of the things you will find tricky to implement is the the sorting and filtering of a GridView's column that displays related model data.

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Cómo enviar emails usando SMTP

Created 9 years ago by robregonm, updated 9 years ago by robregonm.
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Managing a star rating with the StarRating widget in Yii 2

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

In Yii 1.x, there was a built in widget CStarRating based on the jquery star rating plugin. There exists no prebuilt solution in Yii2, however the same concepts can be extended using any jquery plugin.

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Using the yii2-datecontrol extension along with yii2-detail-view widget

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

The yii2-datecontrol extension allows you to control separate date formats for display and saving for form inputs.

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Displaying uploaded file from DB for update with FileInput widget

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

This is for folks who are using \kartik\widgets\FileInput to upload files from your client. How do you display an image for update after you have uploaded it to the server using the widget?

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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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using 'whenClient' for complex client side validation

Created 9 years ago by thiagoc7, updated 9 years ago by thiagoc7.

You have a 'Category' model with Id, Name and Visibility (boolean, where 0 = Public, and 1 = Private).

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Book Has Author - Many to Many relations using Kartik\Select2

Created 9 years ago by thiagoc7, updated 9 years ago by thiagoc7.

I could make this work following same useful tips from this post.

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Managing different Bootstrap form layouts with yii2-field-range extension.

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

This wiki will explain how you can use the Field range extension with multiple Bootstrap form layouts (vertical or horizontal). You maybe aware, that the yii2-field-range extension enables you to easily setup ActiveField range fields with Bootstrap styling. You basically can setup two attributes joined together like a single field with combined validation error block.

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How to use yii2-authclient to communicate with Twitter using Single Access Token

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

It is quite simple, but I am sure this small tutorial will help more than one of you out there :)

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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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