Wiki articles in category How-tos

If you want to edit data directly in the gridview in a 'dropdownlist' style, then you could use the 'type' => 'select' option of TbEditableColumn (YiiBooster) or EditableColumn (x-editable for Yii). This wiki shows how to get data from the db for the 'dropdownlist', by converting AR model data into an array that is passed in json format.

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.

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:

In application development we often have to choose how to mange recurrent values.

This is a bried guide about displaying of custom sql query results.

Hey guys, today we will show you how to make a Yii CJuitabs as example. Some feature cases such as Static tabs, render partial tabs, Ajax tabs, color tabs... You can see our code, there are simple 3 steps to make it work.

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

Hi buddies !, This tutorial shows about how to add a custom button with your own icon for your CGridView of Yii framework

There are scenarios when you work with DVCS (like [Mercurial]( http://mercurial.selenic.com/) or [Git]( http://git-scm.com/)) and CDbMessageSource. To my experience keeping the development database and production database in sync can be very...

One can control the detail of a web application in the webroot/index.php file by manipulating the values of YII_DEBUG and YII_TRACE_LEVEL, but these don't appear to be used by console applications. This is because although the base CApplication class defines a displayError() method that does consider these variable, CConsoleApplication overrides it with a function that doesn't honor th...

I was able to set up the infinite scroll of select2 in Yii. I am glad to share it with you. The demo and source code can be found here. However, select2 for Yii can be found here which uses a widget.

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At first, create a class named SmartyRenderer under application/components or any directory you want.

• Yii based application
• Enabled path UrlFormat for UrlManager
• All rewrites rules shout be written (.htaccess or any other conf)
• Image extension for Yii installed ( http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/image/ )

Since version 1.0.4, Yii developers can make use of the image gallery provided by Sebastian Tshan, a great javascript developer that has created some true gems like the jquery file upload plugin.

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

I www.jamesbarnsley.com was tasked to find a way to do recursive deletion in Yii. As I asked other developers and looked around the internet the usual answers all came up, use a plugin or use cascade delete at the DB level, but I did not want to do either of these.

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...

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This wiki shall be considered deprecated since the Yii installer for composer has been discontinued.