The nested set behaviour is an approach to store hierarchical data in relational databases. For example, if we have many categories for our product or items. One category can be a "parent" for other categories, means that one category consists of more than one category. The model can be drawn using a "tree" model. There are other approaches available but what we will learn in this article is speci...
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.
We will use Symfony 2 components for writing tests for Yii project, it's gonna be fun :).
By default, the expression Yii::app()->user returns a [CWebUser] [application component](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/basics.application#application-component) which represents the information that are closely related with the current user. Some information can be persistent throughout the current user session. For example, [CWebUser] already comes with a [name|CWebUser::name] property th...
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.
In this tutorial, we describe how to implement multiple layouts for action views in an application. As an example, we assume that the pages in our application will use three different layouts:
Since Yii 1.0.5 you can use named scopes with ActiveRecords. They are a great help in simplifying your query calls.
This tutorial will show you how to use the Pogostick Yii Extension Library to make an HTML TEXTAREA input element into a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor pretty much with very little code.
1) include the fancybox extesion otherwise fancybox js
This tutorial describes how to write your views for help pages using Markdown syntax to be able to generate PDFs from same source files.
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.
In this post I am going to describe a solution to make your yii-based web application safe from illegal content injections.
In this tutorial we will be setting up a content type to be ordered by weight using the JUI Sortable plugin.
Add these lines in /config/main.php
'components'=>array(
.........
'db'=>array(
'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database1',
'emulatePrepare' => true,
'username' => 'root',
'password' => 'itsasecret',
'charset' => 'utf8',
),
'db2'=>array(
'class' => 'CDbConnection',
'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=databa...
In order to nicely display flash Messages, create view like this called views/site/dialog.php :
This tutorial shows you how to safely remove records between relationships.
To extend the functionality of you web application relative to your requirements you are supposed to use existing yii core libraries or use external libraries. There are some steps to ensure security, uniqueness, modularity, performance and to avoid rework in future.