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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.

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.

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:

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

• Running a composer update does not fetch any new packages (even though the source is updated)
• A specific vendor package never gets updated
• Facing on and off problems when fetching packages while performing composer update.
• You ran a composer update earlier, but it was partially done, before you lost network connectivity, and you cannot refresh packages anymore.

Personalmente trovo che la versione "portable" sia molto più semplice da aggiornare, ed io tengo sempre costantemente aggiornato TUTTO il parco software relativo al mio webserver.

When you are handling so many projects and those projects are saved in different repository locations, you may find it very difficult to keep track all the versions and revisions manually and it will be much harder if you are developing in multiple repository branches.

You may find this usefull when you discover your CGridView lost the selection after an update or after a page change, nicely i have build a new extension to cover this problem in a very easy way.

In this wiki I will show how could use a CSqlDataProvider in CGridView with specific features

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

In this tutorial we will try to save cgridview filter(search) with title etc. basically we want to save two forms data i.e one represents filters and other data about filters like title, description etc. You can define your own structure for filter saving table here are some basic steps

By Integrating the Zend 2.* framework into Yii you can quickly and painlessly generate XML outputs from your controllers. This will be helpful to anyone who has never done this before or only done it with Zend 1 as the introduction of namespaces can be strange when you first view them.

Sometime its very important to perform many actions/operation with limited time frame for friendly use, select2 provides a lot of such functionality , I just extend it tags functionality to provide a quick use for developer to save time, as I spent much time on it.

Purpose

To extend the functionality of you web application relative to your requirements you are supposed to use existing yii core libraries or use external libraries. There are some steps to ensure security, uniqueness, modularity, performance and to avoid rework in future.

Step 01: Have a Strategy

• Is my extension just for fun/demonstration purposes or for everyday use in the real world? -...

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To get multi level dropdown menu of using boostrap extension (http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/bootstrap/) widget TbNavbar just follow steps

This tutorial is for people that are integrating Yii into WordPress. Meaning that WordPress is the host platform, and that Yii will be handling AR, CRUD, etc.

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