Wiki articles in category Tutorials

This wiki explains how to add calculated fields into your Yii Framework 2.0 gridview with filtering and sorting.

One of the common requests I see in the forum is how to implement RBAC. While you can implement Yii 2's built-in RBAC, that might be too much for developers who are just starting with Yii 2 or have simpler needs. Sometimes you are looking for a fast solution and just want two flavors, user and admin. And even if you will eventually need more, you can use these methods as a starting point for devel...

This wiki explains how to add summary data from related models into your Yii Framework 2.0 gridview with filtering and sorting by the summary columns.

Here is a small guide how to get console commands running inside modules & extensions. For this guide I used a fresh yii2 basic application template.

Welcome, all of you !

The only differences in Yii 2 is that its much simpler due to available functions in the Model class for loading and validating models.

By popular demand, today I will be revisiting my previous Yii Framework 2 Getting Started Guide and updating it with what is currently available in the Yii Framework 2 Repository. Provide here is an super simple example CRUD application that will help you get started using the framework.

JWT is short for JSON Web Token. It is used eg. instead of sessions to maintain a login in a browser that is talking to an API - since browser sessions are vulnerable to CSRF security issues. JWT is also less complicated than setting up an OAuth authentication mechanism.

Here is a step by step To-Do list for Yii beginners. The list is an advice of what tutorials and documentation you can walk through to get a full understanding of the Yii Framework. These can be a help to learn Yii.

To use jui auto complete widget first add

If you are coming over to Yii 2 from Yii 1.x, you may have already read this useful wiki for creating dependent dropdowns. You can use a similar approach in Yii 2 to do the same. But if you are looking at a prebuilt solution that helps you manage it easier, read along.

This is wiki page is useful if you are trying to build a customized REST API in Yii2.0

This article tries to describe the practical techniques of searching by a HAS_MANY relation using ActiveRecord of Yii 2.0.

Assume we have many categories and many posts.

Bootstrap tabs gets unselected/inactive when user navigates to other page and comes back. How to make bootstrap tabs remain active/selected after navigating to different web pages.

Following is the table structure

tblgroups

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tblgroups` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `groupname` varchar(150) NOT NULL,
  `status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1' COMMENT '1=Acitve,2=Inactive',
  `date` datetime NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

tblcontacts

So you want to use a fork of any existing vendor extension with your Yii 2 install and use the fork, instead of original source. This does not need you to push any update or register your package on packagist.org. You are recommended to follow the approach below:

Working with scenarios, with models that can receive many modifications in their rules or structures as development evolves, can create disruptions in the rescue process.

Imagine adds most common image functions and also acts as a wrapper to Imagine image manipulation library.