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There are numerous usability problems:

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.

I was playing around with another PHP framework which I didn't really liked anyway but it had simple and nice integration for PHP built in web server so I decided to write one for Yii (since this is my primary PHP framework)

To generate excel by query content, and download through any controller. You also can bind cssClass to header/odd/even rows. As for header, you even can set cssClass for each column.

$this->export2excel($excel_content,$excel_file);

in your controller.

Use this extension : yii2-relation-trait

This wiki is to show you how to use jQuery get and JSON to get data from a dropdown/any form field and fill form fields with the values instantaneously. First, I'll give example use cases of what I'm going to teach you so you can quickly see if this is for you.

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.

1. create file common\components\languageSwitcher.php

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.