Wiki articles in category How-tos

The problem is not new: after setting some filters in a grid (typically in admin view), and gone to another page, returning in the grid's page I would like to find the filters with previous setting mantained.

The Yii Framework provides a sweet functionality that allows you to easily create page specific menus. What does this mean? This allows you to create one layout or CSS styling for your menu, and when each page is loaded, a new set of menu items is loaded in. This is useful for context specific sidebars within your application.

I was recently assigned with the task of integrating several extensive forms into a WordPress website. These forms comprised numerous fields, intricate validation rules, dynamic fields (one to many relationships) and even interdependencies, where employing PHP inheritance could mitigate code duplication.

Sometimes we need to create our custom exception and show it to the end user through a friendly way . In this article, I'm showing how to do it using CJuidialog.

Finding good looking, working and not abandoned gallery manager for Yii 1.x application is a tough task. Out of all I found, only yii-gallery-manager extension looked promising. But, after downloading it, it turned out, that there are certain unusual things to do, to include it in your application. So, I decided to write this article...

We probably have all used a virtual attribute (model function) to retrieve complex or related data for a CGridView column:

This behavior enable you to command the RBAC via console. This avoids you to install a entire rbac graphic toolkit to set up some rules in the rbac, maybe you are running inside a ssh console.

Use this code in your view,make sure to put EAmChartWidget in your extension folder. here is the url of widget http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/eamchartwidget/

Here i am writing code how to add option of theme change and layout change in your website.

This is how i do before query on Yii 2.0

We can easily have a multilingual site if we put a "lang" parameter that comes via GET. For example:

It's easy to execute migration locally on XAMPP using cmd, but on server where you script is it's little bit harder.

The Google mapping extension by Dos Amigos (link) is really great but there are difficulties with Google maps when you want to manipulate your map object with Ajax.

How to add additional information to a user when using BUM extension?

I wrote about this on my blog, but wanted to post it here too.

It can happen that you work in development environment and you make changes to database tables structures, adding tables, or changing fields.

https://github.com/marciocamello/yii2-app-advanced-sh

A Yii Framework 2 component for using assets in different environments (Local/CDNs)

I just chased my tail around for a bit today. I got lost with setting the status of all inputs, and banging my head on why the "validate" function just wasn't working.

The export to excel function will affected by the final resorted columns in case you use my export grid to excel extends hzlexportgrid too, Since that export extention just depends on the grid columns configs, and that columns been customized by user themselves just now.