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This is wiki page is useful if you are trying to build a customized REST API in Yii2.0

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.

Assume we have many categories and many posts.

If you're using a lot of bower and npm assets with Yii 2.0 you might encounter long running composer update tasks.

Welcome, all of you !

This article tries to describe the practical techniques of searching by a HAS_MANY relation using ActiveRecord of Yii 2.0.

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.

I've read many comments that it's not possible to install Yii 2 advanced on a shared hosting environment, as it has two webroots. This is partially true.

To use jui auto complete widget first add

Bootstrap tabs gets unselected/inactive when user navigates to other page and comes back. How to make bootstrap tabs remain active/selected after navigating to different web pages.

Following is the table structure

tblgroups

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tblgroups` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `groupname` varchar(150) NOT NULL,
  `status` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1' COMMENT '1=Acitve,2=Inactive',
  `date` datetime NOT NULL
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

tblcontacts

So you want to use a fork of any existing vendor extension with your Yii 2 install and use the fork, instead of original source. This does not need you to push any update or register your package on packagist.org. You are recommended to follow the approach below:

In Yii 1.x, there was a built in widget CStarRating based on the jquery star rating plugin. There exists no prebuilt solution in Yii2, however the same concepts can be extended using any jquery plugin.

This article is for those who have dealt with the complexity of Elasticsearch or any other indexing machines and are looking for an easier way to index the existing database without additional effort.

I have read http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/24/creating-a-dependent-dropdown/ (Dependen Dropdown Yii1), but I can't implement it in Yii2 because Yii2 does not have built-in AJAX functionality hem.. I searched about it and came across this post

This is a simple example in Yii2.0 to understand how you can write a custom component and use it inside your app.(basic template)

You have that, when a product is on development they can change its API anytime. This change is quite important though, its related on how to set the events of your form, for example, the useful beforeSubmit.

Let's assume we have two models: Customer and Supplier and we want both to log in. Yii is quite flexible when it comes to authentication and authorization so it's possible.

In yii2 we can create form without create FormModel. Here we go