Wiki articles in category How-tos

In this article, we introduce an approach that allows automatic hyphenation of the route part in URLs.

Remember-filters-gridview is one of the must-use extension on all of my project. However, it lacks of storing the page and sort variables of the grid view.

If you coming to Yii with experience with Zend Framework for example, most likely you get used to

Zend_Registry::get('paramName');
Zend_Registry::set('paramName');

Ok, it is a little bit difficult to full understanding the unsafe validator.

From: http://lacot.org/ and me.

This solution requires Yii 1.1.9 or above

We all know that widgets are really useful. We can use the almost everywhere we want, and we can use the same code a lot of times ( Almost OOP ).

This is a simple example that will give you a base for designing a database driven menu system that will use CMenu to be rendered.

The basic idea is to render a grid and, for each row, render a set of radio buttons that asynchronously update their respective model.

In this article I will show you how to implement a secure password hashing mechanism in your Yii projects using a bCrypt class.

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

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

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

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

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

• 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 $P$.

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.

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 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...

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.