Wiki articles in category How-tos tagged with "session"

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...

This is to show you how to use Yii2 flash messages with Kartik Growl (bootstrap notify wrapper).

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

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.

Getting "Expired token" errors ? Here is a solution to avoid invalid CSRF on POST or ajax requests, or user identity changes.

In this mini howto I would like to show how to add a required captcha field in the login form, after a defined number of unsuccessfull attempts. To do this, I will use the blog demo that you have in default Yii download package (path/to/yii/demos/blog).

This solution requires Yii 1.1.9 or above

First of all, You must change component config to enable the default Yii CSRF validation.

This had me stumped for a while so I figured it would be nice to share here to avoid others the grief.