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...
In case of a multilingual application, one might consider it a reasonable approach to store the preferred language of the user in a session variable, and after that, every time a page is requested, to check this session variable and render the page in the indicated language.
This tutorial shows a Yii-way of doing this.
We implement an event handler for the onBeginRequest event; as the nam...
These features provide endless possibilities and unbelievable flexibility, but as current documentation does not give more than a few examples, it might be difficult to fully understand their internals and requirements.
This example uses a MySQL DB with a table named tree with the fields id, name, and parent_id. The parent_id will be NULL for root elements. The SQL is kept simple (no autoinc, no FK, etc).
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.
Step1: Download the extension from path 'http://code.google.com/p/yii-mail/downloads/list' .
There are many ways to automate the setting of timestamps in yii ActiveRecord models. Three are presented here:
A few days ago, i worked for CGridView exporting functional for my client. He asked me to create a simple exporting to a CSV file a CGridView search results.
Here is a small guide how to get console commands running inside modules & extensions. For this guide I used a fresh yii2 basic application template.
Note: Please also take a look at the newer EMenu extension. This works even better that the deprecated CDropDownMenu!
In this wiki I will show how to create own custom global function. It may be save the space and reduce the time.
First declare an attribute to store the file name in the model class (either a form model or an active record model).
Also declare a file validation rule for this attribute to ensure a file is uploaded with specific extension name.
Because Yii intends to be integrated nicely with third-party libraries, it does not define any global functions. Everything in Yii needs to be addressed with full class name or object scopes. For example, to access the current user, we need to use Yii::app()->user; to access application parameters, we need Yii::app()->params['name']; and so on. While editors like textmate can help alleviate...
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...
In this wiki I will show how could use a CSqlDataProvider in CGridView with specific features
This tutorial gives you multiple options of how to fully implement showing, sorting and filtering related data in gridviews.
hi guys, Here I'm going to give you a working example of ajax form submiting in Yii.
A simple and effective way to keep track what your users are doing within your application is to log their activities related to database modifications. You can log whenever a record was inserted, changed or deleted, and also when and by which user this was done. For a [CActiveRecord] Model you could use a behavior for this purpose. This way you will be able to add log functionality to ActiveRecor...
In this article i will explain how to customize log activity in database, Imaging you need to save IP user, Url request and user_name in database,But table created by default with Yii only have id,level,category,logtime and message
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: