Wiki articles in category How-tos

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Syncing sessions between Yii and KCFinder

Created 11 years ago by Thanasis Fotis, updated 10 years ago by Boaz.

>Info: As KCFinder's documentation mentions, if your application (Yii in our case) session handling is using the PHP environment configuration - meaning no change in session handling at all, then no change is needed also on KCFinder side to be able to use this session and thus have this simple interface between your Yii webapp and KCFinder. If t...

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How to Reuse File Upload Code via Behavior

Created 10 years ago by Ahamed Rifaideen, updated 10 years ago by Ahamed Rifaideen.

hello guys now i am going to show you how to Reuse File Upload Code across multiple projects.

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Generate CTreeview from database table and update a model

Created 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

Suppose we want to set a category to product (or an item in general term), Also suppose categories has sub-categories (multi-level)

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Update related models of a model using listBox and checkBoxList in the form

Created 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

Suppose you want to have a list in Category with its related products and you want to updates the list (removing or insert product items) This wiki show us how to do that

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Update specific cgridview html row after AJAX request

Created 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

After of model update (successfull or not) throught CGridView (check the below link) you probably need to updates the specific row html in cgridview (not entire cgridview)

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Check online users / set specific user offline

Created 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

How to check the online users or how to logout a specific user from your admin panel? This wiki shows how to do that

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Find geolocation info of client through another API

Created 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

This wiki shows how to get the geolocation info of the client using another server API It could be write also as extension but there are a lots of APIs that change the below code So, I wrote the below code that works for one of them (using www.geoplugin.net)

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Save uploaded file with any filename characters

Created 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

First of all this is a very common problem, for more details see this post http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/52052-upload-file-with-any-charset/

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An alternative way to ElasticSearch

Created 5 years ago by Necip, updated a year ago by Necip.

This article is for those who have dealt with the complexity of Elasticsearch or any other indexing machines and are looking for an easier way to index the existing database without additional effort.

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ISA hierarchy of tables inside a database and how to implement a single form

Created 12 years ago by pligor, updated 12 years ago by pligor.

Please consider the following Dear software engineers imagine I have a simple ISA hierarchy: parent A with children B and C. So let's say we have the corresponding tables named "a", "b", "c" and (created with the help of the gii model creator) the classes A, B, C The following is a screenshot from MySQL workbench: ![MySQL workbench screenshot](http://s4.postimage.org/4tuwkm43d/Screenshot.pn...

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Yii 1.1: How To add id or class to CMenu items ?

Created 9 years ago by Louis Gac, updated 9 years ago by Louis Gac.

CMenu comes with a lot of great customization options built in. One of the most used is the class 'active' being added to menu item. But, what if you want to add your own class or id to a menu item ?

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Implementing menu items with progress (wait) dialog

Created 11 years ago by Trejder, updated 11 years ago by Trejder.

This article shows one of possible ways to implement menu items (as well as links), which displays a progress / wait dialog and are redirecting browser to destination URL in the same time. This is especially useful, for links or routes that are know to be loaded for a prolonged period of time (i.e. getting a lot of data from database).

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Logging to Heroku's logs from Yii

Created 11 years ago by aarondfrancis, updated 9 years ago by aarondfrancis.

In order to get your Yii logs into Heroku's logs, you have to work a little bit of magic. You'll need to modify the boot.sh script and add the following two lines: ~~~ touch /app/apache/logs/app_log tail -F /app/apache/logs/app_log & ~~~ This will set up the log and tail it so that when you request "heroku logs", this log is included.

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Yii configuration: Dynamic & User dependent

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

It is difficult to perform user dependent theming through a general configuration in 'main.php'. This article proposes a method to do so through a Factory that dynamically generates classes to allow delayed resolution of actual user values. This means that you can refer to values that are stored in the database through the CActiveRecord before Yii is actually loaded. The values will be fetched...

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"safe" and "unsafe" Model validators (massive assignments)

Created 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 7 years ago by brianvu.

Ok, it is a little bit difficult to full understanding the unsafe validator.

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Create/Develop View files with plain HTML (Without using ActiveForm Class)

Created 10 years ago by kalpit, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

Today i want to share with you is "How can we write HTML Code in view files? I am writing this article because many times we can not use CActiveForm to design our form...

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Extending an ActiveRecord model

Created 11 years ago by Bogsey, updated 11 years ago by Bogsey.

protected $_viewFile

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Simple Web APIs for your Yii App

Created 10 years ago by shiv, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

Its very common now-a-days to have Mobile app for web apps. For Mobile apps we need web APIs to fetch data or even post/update on web. We found a very simple method to make such interface. Mobile App can call plain get or post request and receive data back in JSON format. JSON is relatively easy for mobile app to handle while plain standard GET/POST request for easy for Web server to handle. This...

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Tags: API, JSON