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How to organize Design "things" in Yii 2 (themes and layout)

Created 5 years ago by s.oli, updated 5 years ago by samdark.

Sometimes the App needs a nicer look & feel, so its necessary to organize the assets for this and Yii can help a lot to make it easy. In this article I provide tips for handling multiple "Designs". I use these three features:

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

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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Category: FAQs

Update and Delete buttons on Breadcrumb

Created 5 years ago by Daniel.

The definition of breadcrumbs according to its documentation is as follow: Breadcrumbs displays a list of links indicating the position of the current page in the whole site hierarchy.

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Integrating ZF2 into Yii - use case demonstrated

Created 10 years ago by Boaz, updated 9 years ago by Boaz.

I needed to use a class from ZF2 in my Yii project. I've read probably all there is about this subject and still I needed lots of trial & errors to get it working, probably due to my lack of experience working with namepsaces and ZF2 in general. Also, the resources on the web are all partial, at best. Most simply refer to ZF1 where things are technically different. When I got it all working I de...

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Yii2: Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in Yii Advanced Application Template

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

This is as an extension of this wiki by Kartik V which shows to make different enableAutoLogin cookies for frontend and backend.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Debuging variables in Yii2

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

This tutorial is explained following "basic" application structure.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

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

Remove Byte Order Mark (BOM) from files recursively

Created 10 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz), updated 5 years ago by samdark.

The problem was that all my web applications ran normally on localhost, but on server the Greek characters (or any other no-english characters) displayed with problems.

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Yii2: How to create/develop a new extension using Composer locally without version control or Git

Created 7 years ago by Wade Shuler, updated 5 years ago by jwerner.

Using a version control system, like Git, is nice. However, when building an extension from scratch and loading it via Composer, it adds a lot of pain in the butt steps. You have to commit your changes, update composer to pull them over, then notice there is an error, fix, commit, update. repeat.. I don't want all my baby steps under Git. Sure, I could edit my commit history, but c'mon. Just let m...

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Optimize Scenarios for yii2

Created 7 years ago by AndroideLP, updated 4 years ago by AndroideLP.

Working with scenarios, with models that can receive many modifications in their rules or structures as development evolves, can create disruptions in the rescue process.

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

How to send emails using SMTP

Created 9 years ago by robregonm, updated 4 years ago by Wade Shuler.
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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

Yii2 default values for Index data Provider

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

Guys,

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

FORM with GET method causes repeated stacking of URL Parameters

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

// In Yii 1.x $form = $this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', [

'id' => 'order-search-form',
'method' => 'get',

]); echo $form->textInput($searchModel, 'id'); echo CHtml::submitButton('Find', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary']); $this->endWidget(); `

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Category: Tips

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

How to use imagine ( crop, thumb, effects for images ) on Yii2

Created 9 years ago by Anas AbuDayah, updated 8 years ago by Cozumel.

Imagine adds most common image functions and also acts as a wrapper to Imagine image manipulation library.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

How to send email via Gmail SMTP in Yii2 framework

Created 2 years ago by Bartosz Wójcik, updated 2 years ago by Bartosz Wójcik.

One of my sites has been flooded with spam bots and as a result - Gmail gave my mailing domain a bad score and I couldn't send emails to @gmail addresses anymore, not from my email, not from my system, not from any of other domains and websites I host...

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

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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How to install Yii 2 advanced on a shared hosting environment

Created 8 years ago by oligalma, updated 4 years ago by oligalma.

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

How to make bootstrap tabs remain active/selected after navigating to different web pages.

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

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.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials