When using themes you want to changes some of the translations specifically to the theme while keeping the standard translations for most of the text. Duplicating the main translation file is a headache for maintainance. This how to provides a solution.
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 wo pass the third parameter to UserIdentity on login authenticate. So we can do separate login authentcation from two or more different models from single login form.
In this wiki I will show how could logout from all other sessions or all other places.
This is a bried guide about displaying of custom sql query results.
The number of languages supported by the standard CJuiDatePicker implementation is limited and the language code to use is different from the application's language code. This Wiki shows how to improve on that.
Sometimes you want to use exisiting translations for locales, which do not directly match. An example would be a website targeting Germany (de_de), Austria (de_at) and Switzerland (de_ch, fr_ch, it_ch). Although you may have exisiting translations for German (de), French (fr) and Italian (it), there are problems using it directly.
Sometimes we need to create our custom exception and show it to the end user through a friendly way . In this article, I'm showing how to do it using CJuidialog.
How to add additional information to a user when using BUM extension?
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When you list Authors in grid you would like to print the count of posts in column, allow sorting on this column and probably filtering by the count.
Finding good looking, working and not abandoned gallery manager for Yii 1.x application is a tough task. Out of all I found, only yii-gallery-manager extension looked promising. But, after downloading it, it turned out, that there are certain unusual things to do, to include it in your application. So, I decided to write this article...
Here's a tutorial on how to create a CGridView with external date filters
the trick is to create hidden columns within the CGridView Filters
something like in the example below:
A short explication on how to extract profile information for PHP on your server using XDebug and KCacheGrind or WinCacheGrind.
Getting "Expired token" errors ? Here is a solution to avoid invalid CSRF on POST or ajax requests, or user identity changes.
This behavior enable you to command the RBAC via console. This avoids you to install a entire rbac graphic toolkit to set up some rules in the rbac, maybe you are running inside a ssh console.
When one needs to select a record in a table that do not have related records through a relation, it is generally suggested to use a subquery. Personnaly, I prefer a high level approach, and I have a method to do it with scopes.
In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.
We probably have all used a virtual attribute (model function) to retrieve complex or related data for a CGridView column:
CJuiDatePicker displays a datepicker. CJuiDatePicker encapsulates the JUI datepicker plugin.