Wiki articles in category Tutorials

To extend further static pages as shown by Qiang http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/22/how-to-display-static-pages-in-yii/ here're the steps to take:

This wiki describes a more complex workflow using the XUpload widget

This tutorial gives you multiple options of how to fully implement showing, sorting and filtering related data in gridviews.

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This is a central location to collect links to "Getting Started" documentation beyond the blog demo and Creating First Yii Application. Please help the community by adding general, introductory links and descriptions to this page.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a yii application using Cloud9. We will use a git workspace to enable version control and also show how to link the Cloud9 workspace to GitHub.

If you need simple Role based access control without the long RBAC process then this article is just for you. Lets jump to the point.

Inspired by it I extended the CButtonColumn class like this:

How many of us wonder how we can upgrade the website without hurting the operation of our WebApp?

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...

Usually when we use AutoComplete in a project, We need to show "title" or "name" in the list, while when the form is posted, we need some sort of integer ID referring to the selected value. Out of the Box, CJuiAutoComplete widget doesn't provides different display text and post values.

Have you ever wanted to use an auto-complete field to look up a user or some other data, but want the database ID of that user or data returned as well so that you can more easily perform some function when the form is submitted? Thanks to Yii's CAutoComplete widget and [jQuery's Autocomplete plugin](http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jq-autocomp...

There are good reasons to use Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN) to serve jQuery and jQuery UI on your site:

To start with you need to download the latest stable release of CKeditor. Extract the downloaded file and place the ckeditor/ folder in your applications webroot directory. (beside "protected" and "css" and other directories)

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

This is a tutorial for how to auto set model values without any code.

Next to do is to download the Yii FCKeditor extension, created by Ascomae. Extract the downloaded file, and place the fckeditor/ widget folder in your web applications protected/extensions/ directory.

This is a tutorial to work with radioButtonList which will handle enum datatype. Form design and validation both are detailed here.

The easiest way to update content in AJAX is to use the renderPartial method.

Below I have created an Html helper with methods to help me locate directories of my assets dynamically. Such assets may include CSS, JavaScript and images.

This little tutorial explains a way how you can retrieve more parameters from Yii::app()->user by adding a component that extends CWebUser and retrieves the user information from database table named User.