Wiki articles in category How-tos

This article tries to explain the steps required in integrating the HybridAuth into Yii directly, without using an extension.

For a long time I have struggled to find a suitable tool for doing server tasks such as compiling LESS files, concatenating and minifying of JavaScript files and copying the minified JavaScript files. While most of these tasks can be done with Yii extensions I would still not recommend using them because it requires you to include these extensions in your project, and therefore also deploying them...

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Note: Before reading this wiki you should have read the caching part in the Yii guide

He im giving you a very simple example ie how you can store an image to your blob field in a table.Hope you already familiar with the normal image upload.

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...

Something a good application cant miss is documentation, and what would be better than some nice formatted HTML documentation that can be auto-generated from your code, we know several tools that already do this like phpDocumentor, but today we are introducing Yii Docs Generator...

The sql 'set time_zone' ensures that all dates retrieved are in UTC time. If your MySql server has the time zone names installed then use 'UTC' instead of '+00:00'.

Components

Copy the code at the end of this wiki for LocalTime.php and DefaultDateTimeParser.php int...

This wiki shall be considered deprecated since the Yii installer for composer has been discontinued.

With Yii you can use one CActiveForm for collecting data for two or more models with ajax validation and client validation.

This is what I did. Its the EASIEST solution that I know of. I just reused the advanced search done in CGridView.

To fix issues with display of special language characters once and for all there's a solution: use Unicode UTF-8 everywhere. If everything is set up to use Unicode, you can use mostly every language in your application.

I had some troubles with the password confirmation field for when adding updating user records, so i thought that i should share the way i got it working.

In addition to the opcode cache, APC can also serve as a user cache for Yii via [CApcCache]. It should be noted that this will make APC's memory needs less predictable.

This article describes an implementation of multi-tenancy using Yii and MySQL.

There are cases you want to update a record on CGridview directly

[CMenu] offers great functionality and the ability to customize just about every aspect of the output. There are many times when I need to create a drop down menu or simply modify the look to make the designers happy. Because this seems to be a common task for me, I figured I would share my code to create a very simple drop down menu that other people could use.

We start slowly and simple...

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

This config is built on an Ubuntu 11.04 server. Software is nginx, php-fpm (php5-fpm). For performance, it's recommended to run php-fpm in SOCKET mode, instead of accessing via IP:PORT. That is the method shown below.