Wiki articles in category How-tos

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Configuring controller access rules to default-deny

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 10 years ago by nsanden.

Starting with the blog tutorial, Yii developers are familiar with the notion of access rules defined in the controller, where the actions are allowed or denied depending on the user's name or role.

class CommentController extends CController {
    public function filters()
    {
        return array( 'accessControl' ); // perform access control for CRUD operations
    }

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Syncing sessions between Yii and KCFinder

Created 11 years ago by Thanasis Fotis, updated 10 years ago by Boaz.

>Info: As KCFinder's documentation mentions, if your application (Yii in our case) session handling is using the PHP environment configuration - meaning no change in session handling at all, then no change is needed also on KCFinder side to be able to use this session and thus have this simple interface between your Yii webapp and KCFinder. If t...

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Using CJuiDatePicker for CGridView filter

Created 12 years ago by softark, updated 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).

We can use a CJuiDatePicker for a CGridView inline filter.

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Localized version of CFormatter

Created 11 years ago by marcovtwout, updated 10 years ago by marcovtwout.

To replace the application component 'format', which is registered by CApplication by default, you can put this in your application 'components' config:

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Select2 Infinite Scroll With Remote Data in Yii

Created 10 years ago by IsraelAma, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

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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How to Enhance a CGridView

Created 10 years ago by bluyell, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

by: Christian Salazar (bluyell, @salazachris74, christiansalazarh@gmail.com)

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Safely checking if a model class exists (without exploding)

Created 10 years ago by Boaz, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

While rewriting the PcReportContent extension I'm maintaining I've bumped to a challenge. This wiki was born out of it.

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Simple example for language translation

Created 10 years ago by RKA, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

Language translation is a common requirement in multi lingual sites. In Yii, we can translate using message and view translation.

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Category: How-tos
Tags: i18n, Yii

Attaching multiple event handlers to onBeginRequest

Created 10 years ago by Boaz, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

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).

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How to limit number of guest page views

Created 10 years ago by PeRoChAk, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

In some cases, we have to limit the number of page views for the guests users. Yii provide an efficient method to get this.

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How to create a simple logout link in the view?

Created 10 years ago by mi.sarah, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

Here you learn to create and set a simple ahref-link to logout the current user.

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Email by YiiMailer, Call Outlook, IMAP

Created 10 years ago by Scott_Huang, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

In Yii community we have lots of extention can send emails, such as YiiMailer and Swift and so on, or even IMAPI, thanks for team contribution. However, sometimes, in the intranet enviroment, the program cannot run successfully since SMTP /IMAP port been banded. So you need to seek other ways. The most simple way is call outlook as COM.

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Configuring Yii to run on both Windows and OSX

Created 10 years ago by trond, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

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:

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Category: How-tos
Tags: config

Upload image and content using AJAX and Store it in different table

Created 10 years ago by Selvakumar Kaliyappan, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

var formData = new FormData($("#post-form")[0]);
$.ajax({
    url: '<?php echo Yii::app()->createUrl("forumPost/uploadPost"); ?>',
    type: 'POST',
    data: formData,
    datatype:'json',
    // as...
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How to apply a layout to an AJAX update

Created 10 years ago by trond, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.
  1. The Main template holds the header, main navigation and footer
  2. One or more layout files holds the column setup, sub navigation etc.
  3. The view files hold the actual page content.
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Tags: AJAX, views

How to implement magento cron on yii

Created 10 years ago by Ankit Modi, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

Hi Friends, First I would to say sorry but I am not very familiar to magento so after a 1 week spend I will implement the magneto cron functionality on yii I hope it's may be some helpful.

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How to create Module based Login

Created 10 years ago by Ibrar Turi, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

Lets say we have 3 modules (customer, user, admin) in an application and we need, separate logins for each module.

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Simple Multiple Environment Setup with Default Yii Installation

Created 10 years ago by Ibrar Turi, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

After installing Yii basic application on our systems, most of the time we want to have multiple environment such as local, dev and live setup. Most of the times when we want to make changes to configuration file, we have to over-write configurations file for each environment.

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Simple Web APIs for your Yii App

Created 10 years ago by shiv, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

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...

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Category: How-tos
Tags: API, JSON

HOW TO: Use token based authentication

Created 10 years ago by le_top, updated 10 years ago by CeBe.

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

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