Wiki articles in category How-tos

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How to login from different tables in Yii2

Created 5 years ago by AndroideLP, updated 3 years ago by lenovo.

The Problem: Yii2 utilizes by default UserIdentity configured in config/web.php for connection, this object apply one table to authentication ('identityClass' => 'app\panel\models\User'). How to authentication from diferent tables? Solution: Create instances in web.php to uses UserIdentify. eg:

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

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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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

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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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 - Upgrading to Bootstrap 4

Created 4 years ago by Richard Pillay, updated 4 years ago by Richard Pillay.

Yii2 - Converting from Bootstrap3 to Bootstrap4

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to send email via Gmail SMTP in Yii2 framework

Created 2 years ago by Bartosz Wójcik, updated 2 years ago by Bartosz Wójcik.

One of my sites has been flooded with spam bots and as a result - Gmail gave my mailing domain a bad score and I couldn't send emails to @gmail addresses anymore, not from my email, not from my system, not from any of other domains and websites I host...

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to use GridView with AJAX

Created 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 6 years ago by CeBe.

With the adoption of PJax on Yii2 things  have change quite a bit with GridView when it comes to work with them in AJAX mode. It will probably be confusing at the beginning, but then you will soon realize how powerful the new approach is.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos
Tags: pjax, widget, yii2

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

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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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

[Guide] How to actually separate Frontend (User) and Backend (Admin) on Yii2 Advanced

Created 8 years ago by Wade Shuler, updated 8 years ago by samdark.

I am writing this guide because I struggled to find a resource that included ALL of the necessary steps to completely separate the frontend from the backend. After reading guides like Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in yii-advanced-app and [yii2 configuring d...

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Write & use a custom Component in Yii2.0

Created 9 years ago by sirin k, updated 6 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.

This is a simple example in Yii2.0 to understand how you can write a custom component and use it inside your app.(basic template)

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to hide /frontend/web in url addresses on apache

Created 9 years ago by raminious, updated 9 years ago by jim..

There is an issue on Yii2 to redirecting / urls to /frontend/web.
In other words we need a way to hidden /frontend/web from addresses.
We will do this without changing Apache configuration and creating virtual host or setting document root (It's good for share hostings that we have not access to apache.conf)

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Tutorial about How to Integrate Yii2 with fantastic theme AdminLTE

Created 9 years ago by ThePr0f3550r, updated 9 years ago by YiiJeka.

Yii2 comes with a charming twitter bootstrap version 3. But if it is less, then you can integrate with web templates that you like. One example is wonderfull template "adminLTE"

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to send emails using SMTP

Created 9 years ago by robregonm, updated 4 years ago by Wade Shuler.
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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

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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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Pjax on ActiveForm and GridView - Yii2

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

Here is a example on how to use Pjax with GridView (yii\grid\GridView) and ActiveForm (yii\widgets\ActiveForm) widgets in Yii2.

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Save and Display Date/Time Fields in different formats in Yii2

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

You would find having such a need in most Yii Projects. Your database needs a specific format to store date fields, while you may want to display it in different formats to the users on forms and other views.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Render Form in popup via AJAX (Create and Update) with ajax validation & Also load any page via ajax Yii 2.0 (2.3)

Created 8 years ago by skworden, updated 5 years ago by Yii3.

There are a few issues with the other solutions I originally used that I found from other wikis. I address the issues I had in this much simpler and shorter way. I am also going to explain what is going into way more detail than others to help people understand what's going on.

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Category: How-tos

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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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos