Wiki articles in category How-tos

Since version 5.4 PHP can work as a simple webserver so you can develop Yii applications without installing Apache. That's how to use it:

[CMenu] offers great functionality and the ability to customize just about every aspect of the output. There are many times when I need to create a drop down menu or simply modify the look to make the designers happy. Because this seems to be a common task for me, I figured I would share my code to create a very simple drop down menu that other people could use.

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

In application development we often have to choose how to mange recurrent values.

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

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.

In this tutorial will be explained a method to manage some configuration runtime. This excellent tutorial follows a similar approach, but requires to write a masterclass which all controllers are supposed to extend, following this wiki you can achieve the same by only editing the configuration.

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

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 Radio Button List, which has the enum values as options.
This is a rewrite of c@cba in the wiki article of [enumDropdownList](http://www...

This article discusses the installation/configuration of the YiiBash project (https://github.com/dsoprea/YiiBash).

I was looking around wiki and found that was no approach as the one I did so I guessed this is worth to write.

In this mini howto I would like to show how to add a required captcha field in the login form, after a defined number of unsuccessfull attempts. To do this, I will use the blog demo that you have in default Yii download package (path/to/yii/demos/blog).

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.

Since I used CGridView for a first time, I didn't like how it handled operations like sorting, filtering, changing page and etc using AJAX.

Here is my experiment inspired by my own question and others from the forum.

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.

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...

This HowTo assumes that you have a smattering of ACL in general and of how the acl-extension works basically. It will introduce you into the abstract and give you a hint on how to use Business-Rules. If you have in-depth questions, please refer to the extension documentation. Using ACL in an RBAC-manner cannot and should never obs...

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.

I did not invent this instructions, I read it somewhere and re-organized in my way as I was trying and it works for me;