Wiki articles in category How-tos

Sometimes the right place to store application data is in a join table. For example, movie viewers either like or don’t like the movies they watched.

This wiki will explain how to include a javascript library in a widget.

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](...

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

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.

Hey guys, I'm hoping other people will find this helpful. Today I went through the process of adding CKEditor to one of my projects, and then integrating KCFinder as the image uploader. It will be used in a CActiveForm, without the use of any crazy weird widgets. All paths are relative, using Yii functions, so this will work no matter where you install. Here it is:

This article tries to explain the steps required in integrating the HybridAuth into Yii directly, without using an extension.

While there is a reasonable amount of documentation regarding CForm (form builder) and file uploads seperately, there really is not any coverage of both in combination.

As you know, the CDetailView widget displays details of a single model. If no formatting is specified, boolean values that are stored in the database as 0 and 1, are represented in the detail view as 0 and 1. If formatted as boolean, they are represented as 'No' and 'Yes'. We want to add i18n support, so that Yes and No appear in the current language.

Let's say you have an internal messaging system in your webapp, and you want to display messages dynamically and real-time to the relevant recipients.

Sometimes text inside a gridview column is just too long. That's why I figured out a way to make the column smaller while still providing the information.

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

In this cookbook I will attempt to explain how to use the lightweight version of Role-Based Access Control using a php file. This version does not use database but a php file and is controlled by CPhpAuthManager class.

I had some troubles with the password confirmation field for when adding updating user records, so i thought that i should share the way i got it working.

Yesterday I've written a module for myself. Just an experiment. When I was feeling satisfied, I've created a repository on github, and pushed my code. My module and yii are on github. So I'll show you a "new" way to start our yii projects.

I want to create a wiki page, and therefore im opening this discussion on this forum, for answering all questions and see other opinions, how do you use vim with yii.

For a long time I have struggled to find a suitable tool for doing server tasks such as compiling LESS files, concatenating and minifying of JavaScript files and copying the minified JavaScript files. While most of these tasks can be done with Yii extensions I would still not recommend using them because it requires you to include these extensions in your project, and therefore also deploying them...

I wanted to keep all the I18N related translations in separate files, so that I would not need to modify the view files or the model files every time I need to update or fix the translations of application's source language.

In this How-To I'll show you: