Wiki articles in category How-tos

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

create a class file under protected\components named RActiveRecord.php

After reading the other wiki article regarding token based access, I thought that it might be interesting to share my method.

Here's a simple way to create a Recent comments showing widget to be used in your templates. The idea is just to highlighting your blog's new comments.

In this tutorial will be explained a method to manage some configuration runtime. This excellent tutorial follows a similar approach, but requires to write a masterclass which all controllers are supposed to extend, following this wiki you can achieve the same by only editing the configuration.

Yii makes it really easy for all to use their already made objects that automate everything we do. It provides also great power of flexibility and styling but hey, we programmers tend to complicate our lives and push a little more the power of our tools.

implementing some features of yii user and rights.

Asslamualaikum Wr.Wb Hello I'm Fahmi Azain i will share wiki tutorial about Creating Pdf Report / Excel Report by using Parms / Parameters.

This tip created in conjunction with IRC #yii channel users emilsedgh and tydeas - thanks!

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Suppose you have an Application in Yii that manages hotels each one has many customers.

This article is for those who have dealt with the complexity of Elasticsearch or any other indexing machines and are looking for an easier way to index the existing database without additional effort.

I recently created a project called Yii-App on GitHub to kickstart my development of smaller Yii applications. The main goal of the project is to provide a ready-to-use application template that includes my bootstrap extension and many other useful extensions. After reading this article you will be able to use...

I (www.jamesbarnsley.com) found that when using the Yii Bootstrap tabs component you will sometimes want to direct the user to a specific tab and not necessarily the first tab. Yii Bootstrap already provides the "active" variable so you can define whether the tab is the active tab or not in PHP. I generally find though that a PHP solution to...

I build this simple PHP class (DialogBox.php at the bottom of this wiki) to help you in the dialog box usage on Yii applications. The goal is run any Yii actions into this dialog box and return the resulting value to the calling instance.

• iteration_count_log2 controls the number of iterations for key stretching. A setting of 8 means the hash algorithm will be applied 2^⁸ = 256 times. This setting should be kept between 4 and 31.
• portable_hashes controls whether portable hashes should be used or not. Portable hashes are salted MD5 hashes prefixed by $P$.

If you tried this extension with success, maybe you thought how to do it without page submission or ajax calls.

Create a folder where to place an Yii app under wordpress folder (mine is "yii')

Like gmail, if you have tree or more unsuccessful login attemps a captcha appears

This article is about implementing authentication to Yii based web services.