I am writing this guide because I struggled to find a resource that included ALL of the necessary steps to completely separate the frontend from the backend. After reading guides like Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in yii-advanced-app and [yii2 configuring d...
This is how i do before query on Yii 2.0
Search Models are a very elegant and powerful way to build an Active Data Provider. If you use them a lot, you'll quickly need to use scenarios, which will lead you to a very DRY Controller code.
In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.
1. Create Extension in yii2.
I leverage Kartik's notification widgets.
There are a few issues with the other solutions I originally used that I found from other wikis. I address the issues I had in this much simpler and shorter way. I am also going to explain what is going into way more detail than others to help people understand what's going on.
If you develop rather complex applications with Yii2, you might already be familiar with yii2-app-advanced application template. Well, the template is awesome and provides high flexibility regarding code/configuration sharing among parts of an application.
This is to show you how to use Yii2 flash messages with Kartik Growl (bootstrap notify wrapper).
I'm using PayPal's script from
This tutorial is explained following "basic" application structure.
During development and depending on your setup you may need to use the options forceCopy or
linkAssets of the asset manager to work around possible file-system and permission issues.
solution here If we are using default pagination option like
By default, Yii 2.0 chooses to use the non-minified version of Jquery and Bootstrap files (CSS and JS). However, there's a simple way to indicate Yii to use the minified version.
When building PHP web applications you usually have to take care about defining and providing a consistent development and production environment for your team. This includes your application packages, PHP-extensions, database servers and often further components such as a mail server or workers.
This article tries to describe the practical techniques of searching by a HAS_MANY relation using ActiveRecord of Yii 2.0.
This How-To is useful if you are planning to move the Yii vendor directory outside the default location.
Here is a example on how to use Pjax with GridView (yii\grid\GridView) and ActiveForm (yii\widgets\ActiveForm) widgets in Yii2.