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Using filters on CGridView with CActiveDataProvider is easy, but with CArrayDataProvider it is a bit tricky.

Then, we write this in the config > main.php:

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.

I'm developing a website that has an option to look up a car's registration number via SOAP and return additional details such as make, model, colour etc.

We all love the convenient gadget, namely jQuery UI Datepicker as an input element for date. Yii supports it as CJuiDatePicker. Let's see how to use it.

[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.

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...

In this WIKI you can learn how to create front and admin login form, using database.

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

For best experience,use Chrome.Other browsers may complain here and there.Sorry,no patience to make happy every freaking browser out there!

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.

In this cookbook I will attempt to explain how to use the lightweight version of Role-Based Access Control using a php file. This version does not use database but a php file and is controlled by CPhpAuthManager class.

There are two ways to run a cron job:

Normally when we want users to download a file, that file is put in a folder under the web application root and the web server does the rest.

• "The documentation for CMultiFileUpload isn't clear!"

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.

Trying to learn and help some other programmers to find their solutions on the Yii Forum (I think is a superb way to learn the framework), I was facing one challenge with an external library that a fellow programmer wanted to use -quite good indeed: PHPExcel. And what is PHPExcel?

Starting with the blog tutorial, Yii developers are familiar with the notion of access rules defined in the controller, where the actions are allowed or denied depending on the user's name or role.

class CommentController extends CController {
    public function filters()
    {
        return array( 'accessControl' ); // perform access control for CRUD operations
    }

CJuiDatePicker displays a datepicker. CJuiDatePicker encapsulates the JUI datepicker plugin.

The customary configuration of a Yii application includes just a single database section in the protected/config/main.php file, but it's easy to extend this to support more than one, tying each Model to one of the databases.