Wiki articles in category How-tos

If you develop your Yii project on both Windows and Mac, there can be a problem setting up the configuration unless the configurations for both system are identical. On my machines I have the following configurations:

MailGun.php Class

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...

The problem is not new: after setting some filters in a grid (typically in admin view), and gone to another page, returning in the grid's page I would like to find the filters with previous setting mantained.

I want to create a wiki page, and therefore im opening this discussion on this forum, for answering all questions and see other opinions, how do you use vim with yii.

Apostle provides a nifty facility for sending app-generated, transactional emails from your application including Wordpress-like mail formatting and full tracking (delivery, opening, clicking etc.) of all emails sent. No need to set up email facilities on your app server!

We probably have all used a virtual attribute (model function) to retrieve complex or related data for a CGridView column:

change your index.php

if you have use the yiibooster extension, you have definitely used the amazing redactor, html5 and ckEditor editors.

This wiki shows about how to make a custom column or how to pass php-Yii-html code in CButtonColumn (as a button)

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

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.

If you don't want to use any of the AJAX features of CListView and thus want to prevent that it publishes any of its asset files, you can extend it and create a sub class like this:

I spend a bit of time looking for the this piece of code while building time feature on a site this tutorial also helped Local time zones and locales

This article discusses the installation/configuration of the YiiBash project (https://github.com/dsoprea/YiiBash).

To use this "how-to", you need to install phing in your machine.

It is good when someone writes extensions for us but trust, sometimes we forget about other approaches that, if we know the library, we shouldn't forget.

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...

There came the need to perform two operations, always, on 'application boot' time. Example? My real world example involved some geo-location logic (that's the first operation) and syncing of some session details so KcFinder can be in sync with the user in context - each user with his own session container (the second).

require_once 'Mail.php'; // PEAR Mail require_once 'Mail/mime.php'; // PEAR Mail_mime require_once 'Mail/Queue.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue require_once 'Mail/Queue/Container/mdb2.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue mdb2