Wiki articles in category How-tos

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.

By default, Yii 2.0 chooses to use the non-minified version of Jquery and Bootstrap files (CSS and JS). However, there's a simple way to indicate Yii to use the minified version.

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.

This is to show you how to use Yii2 flash messages with Kartik Growl (bootstrap notify wrapper).

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:

Everyone have seen a multilayer menu in several CMS

To use this "how-to", you need to install phing in your machine.

Using a version control system, like Git, is nice. However, when building an extension from scratch and loading it via Composer, it adds a lot of pain in the butt steps. You have to commit your changes, update composer to pull them over, then notice there is an error, fix, commit, update. repeat.. I don't want all my baby steps under Git. Sure, I could edit my commit history, but c'mon. Just let m...

This article describes an implementation of multi-tenancy using Yii and MySQL.

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();
    }

This article intends to summarize the steps taken to set up PHPUnit and Selenium for a Yii project, with IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate (the IDE). It was done on Mac OS X 10.6.

In this article you'll learn how to send additional form data when uploading files using XUpload widget

I normally create a files folder and I allocate it within my www one, that is where I keep my css, js, images files. So, even though you can place it where ever you wish and for the sake of the example, I will use the files folder name.

A big problem I've hit with the Yii-Bootstrap extension is that all AJAX requests are initializing Bootstrap because of preload. This is a huge waste of resources, especially when using AJAX-based file uploaders that split the file into chunks. Large file uploads using that method could be initializing bootstrap hundreds of times.

require_once 'Mail.php'; // PEAR Mail require_once 'Mail/mime.php'; // PEAR Mail_mime require_once 'Mail/Queue.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue require_once 'Mail/Queue/Container/mdb2.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue mdb2