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Activating Bootstrap 3 Tooltips & Popover for your Yii Site.

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 6 years ago by alrazi.

Step 1: Initialize the Bootstrap Tooltip & Popover plugins in your view layout file @web\views\layouts\main.php. Add this to somewhere in the beginning head section (after you have loaded the Jquery using your AppAsset or something similar).

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

How to store array/widget configuration to the database with config validation rules

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

Note the tag {{homeUrl}} will be dynamically replaced at runtime.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Install specific Yii2 vendor extension & dependency without updating other packages.

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

The tips here are for advanced usages of composer and its assumed you have read about using composer and have a knowledge of your vendor packages to be updated. Let's consider, you want to update only one specific yii2 vendor library, without updating all the other extension packages?

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Managing your nested dropdown dependency with DepDrop widget

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

If you are coming over to Yii 2 from Yii 1.x, you may have already read this useful wiki for creating dependent dropdowns. You can use a similar approach in Yii 2 to do the same. But if you are looking at a prebuilt solution that helps you manage it easier, read along.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Displaying uploaded file from DB for update with FileInput widget

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

This is for folks who are using \kartik\widgets\FileInput to upload files from your client. How do you display an image for update after you have uploaded it to the server using the widget?

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Aadhar Number Validator

Created a year ago by shiv.

In India have Aadhar number an we may need to valid it a input. So I created a validator for yii2

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips
Tags: validator

Overcoming removal of client helpers (e.g. ajaxLink) and ClientScript in Yii 2.0

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

Alternatively, inline assets (JS/CSS) can be registered at runtime from within the View. For example you can clearly simulate the ajaxLink feature using a inline javascript. Its however recommended if you can merge where possible, client code (JS/CSS) into separate JS/CSS files and loaded through the AssetBundle. Note there is no more need of a CClientScript anymore:

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Version: 2.0
Category: FAQs

Managing a star rating with the StarRating widget in Yii 2

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 9 years ago by Kartik V.

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Analyse the server's USER-AGENT against browsecap file to determine it's capability.

Created 9 years ago by Deepak Pradhan, updated 9 years ago by Deepak Pradhan.

Does your application need to know user's details on browser details, os and device type? We can use PHP's misc. function to achieve that provided you have an update copy of browsercap.ini

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Convert JSON data to html table for display on page

Created a year ago by shiv.

I have a calls which help me display json directly in html table.

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Version: all
Category: Tips
Tags: html, JSON

Using PayPal IPN with Yii2

Created 9 years ago by darioo, updated 9 years ago by darioo.

I'm using PayPal's script from

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Customize your Growl/Alert msg easy and quickly

Created 8 years ago by Scott_Huang, updated 8 years ago by Scott_Huang.

I leverage Kartik's notification widgets.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Building a search GET request with scenarios ; calling a SearchModel from URLs...

Created 8 years ago by Louis Gac, updated 8 years ago by Louis Gac.

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Before Query Example : Soft Delete

Created 8 years ago by moo.tensai, updated 8 years ago by moo.tensai.

This is how i do before query on Yii 2.0

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Execute migration on server/linux using shell

Created 8 years ago by darioo, updated 8 years ago by darioo.

It's easy to execute migration locally on XAMPP using cmd, but on server where you script is it's little bit harder.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Simple Google Maps object for use with ajax maps

Created 8 years ago by Chris Backhouse, updated 8 years ago by Chris Backhouse.

The Google mapping extension by Dos Amigos (link) is really great but there are difficulties with Google maps when you want to manipulate your map object with Ajax.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Yii2: Query build for complexity SQL

Created 8 years ago by Scott_Huang, updated 8 years ago by Scott_Huang.

As for complexity SQL query we have two solutions as below, I will discuss #2 in this article.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Simple Jui Autocomplete in yii2

Created 8 years ago by ajith, updated 8 years ago by ajith.

To use jui auto complete widget first add

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Automatic Parameter Binding to POST vars in Yii2

Created 10 years ago by aarondfrancis, updated 9 years ago by YiiJeka.

I wrote about this on my blog, but wanted to post it here too.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

MySQL migration environment

Created 8 years ago by Fabrizio Caldarelli, updated 8 years ago by Fabrizio Caldarelli.

It can happen that you work in development environment and you make changes to database tables structures, adding tables, or changing fields.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos