Wiki articles in category How-tos

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.

Using CActiveRecord->updateAll() and CActiveRecord->deleteAll() with scopes and criteria requires some tricks that are explained in this article. While findAll() , find() and some other methods use scopes automatically, updateAll() and deleteAll() do not.

I found a standard Yii app's protected folder structure nearly perfect. With a few simple moves and a little bit change to the code, I managed to bring it to the level, which I found as fully perfect. I want to share my point of view, in case someone would like to use this structure as well.

This article explains how to easily turn standard text-line validation errors into beautifully and professionally looking Twitter Bootstrap's Popovers.

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

If you like the things to be short and clear, then you can skip right to a short summary of instructions at the end of this article.

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.

This is a simple example of how we can display images in CGridviews.Imagine that you have an image field in your table ie either a location field or a blob type field used to store the images.

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.

There are scenarios when you work with DVCS (like [Mercurial]( http://mercurial.selenic.com/) or [Git]( http://git-scm.com/)) and CDbMessageSource. To my experience keeping the development database and production database in sync can be very...

Suppose you have an Application in Yii that manages hotels each one has many customers.

There are a couple of ways to achieve this, but the first is preferred.

Normally when we want users to download a file, that file is put in a folder under the web application root and the web server does the rest.

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