Wiki articles in category How-tos

The problem was that all my web applications ran normally on localhost, but on server the Greek characters (or any other no-english characters) displayed with problems.

Checkboxes have two possible values, true and false, but some applications require that the user select one particular value before proceeding. Examples might be:

This example includes a composite condition as well as an empty condition - as if you bypass or disable defaultScope without using resetScope().

Countries sometimes change their laws pertaining to time zones and daylight saving times. This means that GMT+2 can be a different local time this August compared to last August! It could even be a different date!

Its very common now-a-days to have Mobile app for web apps. For Mobile apps we need web APIs to fetch data or even post/update on web. We found a very simple method to make such interface. Mobile App can call plain get or post request and receive data back in JSON format. JSON is relatively easy for mobile app to handle while plain standard GET/POST request for easy for Web server to handle. This...

There is a few cases that you want more of one CActiveDataProvider displayed in one CGrideView How to do that?

This widget will show a Facebook "like" button and "comments" box together with "tweet" button and "google plusone" button on your page.

• 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/ )

It is actually mentioned in the documentation

Here is my solution to login with email or anything else This update works with database mysql You must generate the user model with GII

CGridView and CListView are great widget to populate records and also provides features like ajax update, column sort, search, drop-down filter, ajax content load and many more...

I keep a reference to some simple but painful task if you forget a common or something. I am new to Yii and this took awhile for me to figure out. Everything I read said do this or do that and not a single one worked for me. However, the following did.

Sometimes you want to render a view in Fancybox.

In this wiki I explain how to show a default popup dialogbox (like Gii does) using an existing module.

There are two approaches to converting an Artisteer theme. The first is to simply copy an existing Artisteer – based Yii theme, overlay the CSS and images, then make any necessary tweaks to the layout files. This is undoubtedly the fastest route, but won't teach you as much as doing it from scratch. That's ok. Sometimes getting the job done is the top priority. The second approach is more gen...

This HowTo assumes that you have a smattering of ACL in general and of how the acl-extension works basically. It will introduce you into the abstract and give you a hint on how to use Business-Rules. If you have in-depth questions, please refer to the extension documentation. Using ACL in an RBAC-manner cannot and should never obs...

I needed a csv export function for my cgridview and I wanted to export the entire result set of the sorted and filtered cgridview the user was viewing via ajax.

In your application configuration (protected/config/main.php), set the sourceLanguage parameter to English:

protected $_viewFile