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.
This article tries to describe the practical techniques of searching by a HAS_MANY relation using ActiveRecord of Yii 2.0.
This wiki has been replaced by Use crypt() for password storage.
If we want to set meta tags on a per page (controller-action) basis, we may use the clientScript application component.
If you want to add module based login to a site without using RBAC, please follow these guidelines.
This tutorial shows how to filter CListView items by AJAX, and it's compatible with disabled JavaScript users
In my case this has been done to filter users list
This is a tutorial for how to add input text-Field, check-box, buttons in CGridView.
There are good reasons to use Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN) to serve jQuery and jQuery UI on your site:
Since PHP is dynamically typed language, the way IDE may help you is limited.
In a Web application, we often need to display pages like "about this site", "legal information", whose content are mostly static. There are several approaches to deal with this kind of pages.
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.
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...
Note: Please also take a look at the newer EMenu extension. This works even better that the deprecated CDropDownMenu!
Update: This wiki has been rewritten to be in line with Yii 1.1.14. Since many of the detailed complexities are now handled by Yii, the article focuses on how the crypt() built-in function works and why it's important to use it correctly.
This is second article with my tutorial. I had to add it, because Wiki article has limited length and as I was extending it's text, older paragraphs were disappearing. So here I am starting from chapter 6.
This tutorial will show you how to create Ajax dialog which allows to create new model, update or delete existing model. It works with simple links, CGridView button column links, adds a minimal amount of code and degrades gracefully with JavaScript turned off.
I've found useful to have a step by step reference guide to work with Git with most used commands, feel free to update it with useful information you may find interesting too.
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.
Yii core messages refer to static text strings in the core Yii framework code which are meant to be displayed to end-users (e.g. core exception messages, default validation error messages). Customization of these core messages is needed in two circumstances:
The purpose of this post is to let anyone quickly find how to accomplish a configuration task, and list here all the posibilities of the config.php file and also link to pages that explain how is each thing implemented.