Wiki articles in category Tutorials

Since Yii 1.0.5 you can use named scopes with ActiveRecords. They are a great help in simplifying your query calls.

This is a simple demo how to use Zend_AMF with Yii.

Application configuration determines how an Yii application should behave, because it is the only parameter passed in the entry script. An application, on the other hand, needs to behave differently under different circumstances. For example, an application may need different configurations when running in production mode, development mode and testing mode; In a team development environment, each...

Set your messages in a controller:

Yii::app()->user->setFlash('success', "Data1 saved!");
Yii::app()->user->setFlash('error', "Data2 failed!");
Yii::app()->user->setFlash('notice', "Data3 ignored.");

Sometimes you need to force a user to change their password after x number of days. This article describes how to implement this using a filter, ChangePasswordFilter.

When you define or extend a class, you can create class variables and methods in Yii just like you can in any other PHP system:

class Comment extends CActiveRecord {
    public $helperVariable;
    public function rules() { ... }
    ...
}

and then use them in the obvious way:

$var   = $model->helperVariable;
$rules = $model->rules();

This part everybody understa...

Many Yii users ask how to create helper classes and functions, and though there are numerous approaches spread out among the forum and wiki articles, this Tutorial tries to bring it all together in one place.

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.

Having said all of that, I want to add that the purpose of this article is not to convince anyone to write tests or design following TDD patterns. I'm not going to change the world to what I think is good. It's just about showing how to use some tools together with Yii Framework.

Missed of autocomplete in bash console commands yii make me sad.

We will use Symfony 2 components for writing tests for Yii project, it's gonna be fun :).

For a complete sample Nginx+PHP-FPM config, view this how-to: Nginx & PHP-FPM

Note: Please also take a look at the newer EMenu extension. This works even better that the deprecated CDropDownMenu!

1. Operating system: Windows

This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in Codelobster PHP Edition.

First, you have to have create database table for default language and allowed languages.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_languages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `lang` varchar(2) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `flagpath` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_...

require_once($yii); Yii::createWebApplication($config)->run();

The config first required In CApplication constructor

The only thing required is simple, we just need to create a view that will be partially rendered by a call to a controller (using renderPartial) and make sure that we process output -setting to true the parameter on the function. Everything will work as expected but...

这篇文章将介绍使用Linux cronjobs去自动化执行Yii Console Application(控制台)任务，像每天晚上执行缓存清理，临时文件清理，发送邮件，网站备份等等，重复的工作都交给服务器后台去完成，Yii本身已经提供了强大的支持，我们所做的工作就很少,当使用yiic webapp 自动生成工程结构时，强大的Yii已经全部帮我们生成好，仅仅只需三步。