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Displaying, Sorting and Filtering Model Relations on a GridView

Created 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez.

One of the things you will find tricky to implement is the the sorting and filtering of a GridView's column that displays related model data.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Adding Yii Search to Your Browser Search Box

Created 13 years ago by qiang, updated 5 years ago by CeBe.

The official Yii project site now supports OpenSearch. This means you can customize your browser's search box to enable direct search of the content in yiiframework.com. For example, by entering a Yii class name in the browser's search box, the corresponding class API page will be shown in the browser.

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Version: all
Category: Tips

Render Form in popup via AJAX (Create and Update) with ajax validation & Also load any page via ajax Yii 2.0 (2.3)

Created 8 years ago by skworden, updated 5 years ago by Yii3.

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to learn Yii?!

Created 12 years ago by yJeroen, updated 4 years ago by CeBe.

Here is a step by step To-Do list for Yii beginners. The list is an advice of what tutorials and documentation you can walk through to get a full understanding of the Yii Framework. These can be a help to learn Yii.

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Version: all
Category: Tutorials

Configuring PhpStorm IDE for Yii 2

Created 5 years ago by CeBe, updated 5 years ago by CeBe.

There are a few settings and plugins that can enhance the development experience with Yii in PHPStorm or IntelliJ IDEA. This article explains how to get the most out of your IDE.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Write & use a custom Component in Yii2.0

Created 9 years ago by sirin k, updated 6 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.

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)

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

JWT authentication tutorial

Created 2 years ago by Allan Jensen, updated 2 years ago by Allan Jensen.

JWT is short for JSON Web Token. It is used eg. instead of sessions to maintain a login in a browser that is talking to an API - since browser sessions are vulnerable to CSRF security issues. JWT is also less complicated than setting up an OAuth authentication mechanism.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Drills : Search by a HAS_MANY relation in Yii 2.0

Created 9 years ago by softark, updated 5 years ago by softark.

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

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

When to use Active Record

Created 5 years ago by samdark, updated 3 years ago by samdark.

When to use Active Record is a common question among developers, Yii and overall.

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Version: all
Category: FAQs

Show raw SQL query

Created 7 years ago by darioo, updated 7 years ago by darioo.

Here's a quick tip to dump the SQL for query.

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Version: 2.0
Category: FAQs

Yii2 - Upgrading to Bootstrap 4

Created 4 years ago by Richard Pillay, updated 4 years ago by Richard Pillay.

Yii2 - Converting from Bootstrap3 to Bootstrap4

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Move sources to src

Created 4 years ago by samdark, updated 4 years ago by samdark.

Yii 3 and many Yii 2 package sources are contained within src directory which is convenient since you have less directories to check.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Relational Query - Lazy Loading and Eager Loading in Yii 2.0

Created 8 years ago by softark, updated 4 years ago by samdark.

It's well known that there are Lazy Loading approach and Eager Loading approach in the relational query. But it's very important to know how the Eager Loading approach works in Yii 2. It has changed drastically from that of Yii 1.1, and there are common misunderstandings about it in the community.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials
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Version: all
Category: Others

How to use GridView with AJAX

Created 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 6 years ago by CeBe.

With the adoption of PJax on Yii2 things  have change quite a bit with GridView when it comes to work with them in AJAX mode. It will probably be confusing at the beginning, but then you will soon realize how powerful the new approach is.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos
Tags: pjax, widget, yii2

How to hide /frontend/web in url addresses on apache

Created 9 years ago by raminious, updated 9 years ago by jim..

There is an issue on Yii2 to redirecting / urls to /frontend/web.
In other words we need a way to hidden /frontend/web from addresses.
We will do this without changing Apache configuration and creating virtual host or setting document root (It's good for share hostings that we have not access to apache.conf)

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Tutorial about How to Integrate Yii2 with fantastic theme AdminLTE

Created 9 years ago by ThePr0f3550r, updated 9 years ago by YiiJeka.

Yii2 comes with a charming twitter bootstrap version 3. But if it is less, then you can integrate with web templates that you like. One example is wonderfull template "adminLTE"

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Yii v2 snippet guide III

Created 3 years ago by rackycz, updated 8 months ago by rackycz.

Articles are separated into more files as there is the max lenght for each file on wiki.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Use minified version of JqueryAsset, BootstrapAsset (and all default assets)

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

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Use kartik Growl with Yii2 flash messages

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

This is to show you how to use Yii2 flash messages with Kartik Growl (bootstrap notify wrapper).

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos