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Yii2 GridView Sorting and Searching with a Junction Table Column(Many to Many Relationship)

Created 7 years ago by Amjad Khan, updated 7 years ago by Amjad Khan.

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

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Upload files in Yii2 with MongoDb and GridFs

Created 10 years ago by edoardo849, updated 4 years ago by pceuropa.

Uploading files in a webapp can be extremely tricky and sometimes the quickest way to do it is to store the file directly in the webserver or into a DNS (like Amazon S3) and then to save the link and the metadata inside a table in the DB. The thing is that you'll have to deal with file permissions, server storage, file management and so on (which is perfectly fine, by the way).

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Yii 2 list of path aliases available with default basic and advanced app.

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

If you are coming over from Yii 1.x to Yii 2, and already read this guide, you may note that namespaces are very important in Yii 2 to identify classes. But do you know the list of seeded path aliases that come shipped with a basic or advanced app? Here is my attempt to list them.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Using your own forked version of extensions with composer

Created 9 years ago by Kartik V, updated 8 years ago by Kartik V.

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:

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

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

An alternative way to ElasticSearch

Created 5 years ago by Necip, updated a year ago by Necip.

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.

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Version: all
Category: How-tos

How to implement form events

Created 9 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 8 years ago by deacs.

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos
Tags: Forms, How to, yii2

Create Form With DynamicModel

Created 9 years ago by Misbahul D Munir, updated 9 years ago by Misbahul D Munir.

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

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips
Tags: form, model, yii2

Step by step for how to full export Yii2 grid to excel

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

We will leverage Yii2-excelview widget. So, first of all is install Yii2-excelview:

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

Moving the vendor directory for multiple projects

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

This How-To is useful if you are planning to move the Yii vendor directory outside the default location.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

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

Simple way to implement Dynamic Tabular Inputs

Created 9 years ago by ezekielnoob, updated 5 years ago by samdark.

grid

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Category: Tutorials

How to create/update a model with its related items using Listbox or CheckboxList

Created 8 years ago by softark, updated 6 years ago by softark.

Assume we have many categories and many posts.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Boost composer-asset-plugin update speed

Created 7 years ago by schmunk, updated 7 years ago by samdark.

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

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Category: Tips

Creating a Dependent Dropdown From Scratch in Yii2

Created 9 years ago by ThePr0f3550r, updated 6 years ago by alrazi.

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

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

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

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

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

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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Load data from internal/external source to fill form fields

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

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.

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Version: 2.0
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