Wiki articles in category How-tos

It is actually mentioned in the documentation

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

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

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

Do you want to make a listbox or dropdownlist to select one or more categories or sub categories ?

I recently built a tarpit for bad bots.

Let's say our table 'mug' has a column named 'color' of the type ENUM('red','green','blue').
We want to replace the textfield for the attribute color in the create and update forms of a 'mug' with a drop down list, which has the enum values as options.
The main code was contributed by zaccaria in the forum (see [this post](...

You can find the reason why I wrote this article here.

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

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...

In this article I'll try to explain how to use standard quick search fields in CGridView with customized columns.
For example:
We have a record in a database with field switch having 0 or 1 values. After that we want a user to see on or off instead 1 or 0.
So we do the usual thing:

<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
//.....
array(
    'name'=>'...

First things first,follow the instructions in fr0d0z's article to set up WordPress.Regarding the WpController,I did not use an index view.So the code for WpController is

class WpController extends Controller
{
    public function init()
    {
	 // note that we disable the layout
        $this->layout = false;
        parent::init();
    }

In doing internet searches trying to learn how to incorporated ajax into web pages generated by the yii framework I noticed that there seems to be a lot of confusion. I worry that too-clever hacks will be broken in upgrades of the framework.

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

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.

• 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/ )

I'm developing a website that has an option to look up a car's registration number via SOAP and return additional details such as make, model, colour etc.

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.

So here is my complete solution - note that I'm using the 'short' date format throughout.

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.