Many newcomers to Yii ask about the assets/ directory found under the webroot, and this article means to explain why it's there and how to work with it.

In this tutorial we will learn how to realize a create interface using a dialog.

You have to extend the widget class and configure it for user login widget

Authentication and Authorization is a good tutorial. Among other topics, it describes basic aspects of Yii's RBAC implementation. But however hard I read the tutorial, I couldn't understand how exactly the hierarchy works. I found how to define authorization hierarchy, how business rules are evaluated, how to configure a...

In Yii, we can define an action class and ask the controller to instantiate it. And we always create ourselves actions class in rootPath/protected/extensions, and the view file we called in the actions class always are located in rootPath/protected/views/ControllerNAME or rootPath/themes/ThemeNAME/ControllerNAME, then when we use the same actions class in different controllers, we have to copy it...

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Todos los que hemos empezado a utilizar Yii para crear aplicaciones Web, nos hemos dado de bruces cuando hemos intentado poner a funcionar el RBAC (acceso de control basado en roles).

CMenu comes with a lot of great customization options built in but sometimes you need it to do more.

Un aspecto del diseño de interfaces de usuario tiene que ver con la coherencia del diseño y uso de colores entre los distintos componentes de interfaz de usuario utilizados.

One aspect of User Interface Design has to do with the coherence of the design and the use of the colors between the different User Interface Components used.

This article explains issues about installing XAMPP server package (Lite version) on Windows OS and configuring it for serving webapps written in Yii. Please note, that XAMPP is available for many more platforms and systems. I write about Windows edition as it was the only one tested by me.

If you want to add module based login to a site without using RBAC, please follow these guidelines.

In this article, we introduce a set of CSS naming conventions that we have applied in several big projects and achieved success. The goal of these naming conventions is to eliminate the possibility of naming conflicts, facilitate debugging and maintenance, and to simplify the naming process.

• Install Firebug plugin for Firefox from here.

This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in NetBeans IDE.

Followings are the simple steps to put an analogue clock widget on your skeleton application that is just generated by yiic.

It is a common case coders often come accross. For example the purpose of these checkbox is to mark records to be deleted

I found a better solution.

In order to nicely display flash Messages, create view like this called views/site/dialog.php :

Add these lines in /config/main.php

'components'=>array(
.........
		'db'=>array(
			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database1',
			'emulatePrepare' => true,
			'username' => 'root',
			'password' => 'itsasecret',
			'charset' => 'utf8',
		),
		'db2'=>array(
		    'class' => 'CDbConnection',
			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=databa...