In Yii community we have lots of extention can send emails, such as YiiMailer and Swift and so on, or even IMAPI, thanks for team contribution. However, sometimes, in the intranet enviroment, the program cannot run successfully since SMTP /IMAP port been banded. So you need to seek other ways. The most simple way is call outlook as COM.
The giix code generator has out of the box i18n support for model names and attribute labels (besides other cool features > check it out!) .
But I want to factor in not only the plural form, but also the grammatical cases (especially the accusative) while translating 'Manage Objects', 'Create Object', 'Edit Object' etc.
In this wiki, I try to implement a simple authorization schema without putting much logic inside a file or into database table. We are constructing authorization hierarchy inside the controller. We are getting roles for the current user from database table and assigning only roles to user that are declared in the particular controller. We have brought down the work of loading of auth data at ma...
I did not invent this instructions, I read it somewhere and re-organized in my way as I was trying and it works for me;
I installed phpseclib because I needed to do some AES encryption in my project. After all the hassle of installing php lib, I found out that Yii already has a security module (securityManager). I finally decided to keep using phpseclib because it has one big advantage over Yii securityManager module, it does...
For one of my projects I needed an interactive console command in Yii 1, i.e. the one that is gathering all information from user in an interactive mode (a serie of questions and answers displayed directly in the console), ignoring command-line arguments at all.
How to check the online users or how to logout a specific user from your admin panel? This wiki shows how to do that
The keywords will be stored in a text field in a comma delimited format. The keywords will be created by the site administrator.
Clearing CGridView filters and sort orders from the web pages, is usefull for the end user. Yii does not seem to propose a standard method. Furthermore, this is especially usefull when filters are "remembered" in the user's session.
In this wiki I will show how could use a Captcha in yii CForm. The easy way to show captcha image is create a form using CHtml method & CActiveForm, but CForm also should be able to show a captcha.
I am going to show you an effective way to validate the uniqueness of multiple columns.
Assume that you have teachers and students model.
Sometimes you have CJuiDialog with different content but same buttons (or width, height). If you don't want to repeat yourself this is a great solution:
There are cases that you want to validate the file format, size, extension etc but how to do that without submit the form ?
Sometime we need to display numbers of items per page with their counting as a serial number.
When talking about cookie-base login the Yii guide indicates the following:
Hello, this article will describe some aspects about caching controllers with filters() method in your controller. And I will describe some problems I meet when using this approach for caching, the main problem was
While rewriting the PcReportContent extension I'm maintaining I've bumped to a challenge. This wiki was born out of it.
In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.