Wiki articles in category Tutorials

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.

Here's a simple way to create a breadcrumb widget to be used in your templates. The idea is just to isolate how the breadcrumb is generated based on an array of crumbs.

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.

By default, the decimal separator in php (also in mysql) is a dot (.). So when we work with floats in Yii (in calculations, validation, sql statements etc.), the decimal separator has to be a dot. If we want to use for example a comma (,) as the decimal separator, that is if we want to display numbers and enable users to enter numbers with a comma before the decimals, we have to...

Assume we have many categories and many posts.

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

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.

• add under runtime directory, a new one call it search, it will be used for the index files that Zend Lucene will create. Make sure it is writable!

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

Yii does not have an LDAP class itself, but its very easy to implement LDAP in the stock UserIdentity class.

This is a tutorial for how to add input text-Field, check-box, buttons in CGridView.

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.

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

This is an example for how to create Excel File with PHPExcel library.This article is inspired by Wikki Article return by Antonio Ramirez and extension created by marcovtwout for [PHPExcel library](https://github.co...

This page assumes that you have installed Wampserver on your MS Windows computer.

This wiki describes a more complex workflow using the XUpload widget

p.s. latest version of this tutorial is always available unter the docs/ folder of the User Management Module.

Large applications are often divided into front-end and back-end (or even more ends) depending on the target user groups. The front-end should be used by common users, while the back-end mainly the administrators or staff members. The two ends usually have dramatically different appearance, even though they may share a lot of code underneath. In this tutorial, we describe a way of organizing direc...

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

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...