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I had created one controller file which can create sitemap.xml file(which is used for seo, google crawler and many other puropse) dynamically with one run.

Hello, this article will describe some aspects about caching controllers with filters() method in your controller. And I will describe some problems I meet when using this approach for caching, the main problem was

My CMS supports multiple sites using one code base therefore the db connection can only be configured by detecting the site's domain.

These newsletters have always been hard to create as regular web HTML is not properly read by web email interfaces and email clients. I thought that the simplest solution would be to use a web page that would serve as a web version of the newsletter and turn it somehow into newsletter HTML.

I discovered Twitter Bootstrap almost two years ago. After trying it out for a while I fell in love with it. It didn't take long before I realized that it would be great to write an extension that allowed developers to start using Bootstrap in their Yii projects. One night I sat down and started writing what later became my now popular [bootstrap extension](http://ww...

Sometimes text inside a gridview column is just too long. That's why I figured out a way to make the column smaller while still providing the information.

This is the code in the View.

<?php echo CHtml::link('MyDialog', Yii::app()->createUrl('site/page'), array('class' => 'openDlg divDialog')); ?>
<?php
$this->beginWidget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDialog', array('id'=>'divDialog',
	'options'=>array( 'title'=>Yii::t('Dialog Title', 'autoOpen'=>false, 'modal'=>true, 'width'=>600)));
?>
	<div class="divForForm"></div>
<?php
$this->endWidget(...

This article shows a quick and easy way to implement flat user access control system. Flat means, that user access is controlled by level only, which is solution exactly opposite to complex RBAC access systems.

Hi Friends, This tutorial may be help us create the custom drop-down menu using CHtml::dropDownList

To accomplish the task of changing Migration table's name, by default tbl_migration, you need to add the following in your ./protected/config/console.php.

A short explication on how to extract profile information for PHP on your server using XDebug and KCacheGrind or WinCacheGrind.

I've gotten Yii running cron jobs, and wanted to explain briefly how I did it.

This Behaviour helps to view time/date/timestamp/datetime from db to local Date / Time / Date Time format and in local Timezone. And save into db in with db timezone and db format. You only need to include this behaviour in models where need this facility.

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.

While there is a reasonable amount of documentation regarding CForm (form builder) and file uploads seperately, there really is not any coverage of both in combination.

The CGridView widget is very useful and customizable, but sometimes you need a little more. One limit I found is to have only one row for headers; yes, you can write each column header in more than one row, but just inside the single cell. I was looking instead for the possibility to use more than one row, with different structure one from the others. This way **you can write columns grouping h...

How to create a simple (non-RBAC) authorization system

Yii have a CJuiProgressBar, but it is static. If we want a dynamic progress bar to show the percentage or status, we have to do more things. I make it successfully and am glad to share it with you.

Hi Everyone

Yii i18n does not cover decimal format. Some languages like Spanish (I live in Argentina) uses comma ',' instead of dot '.' as decimal separator.