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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

RBAC Super Simple with Admin and User

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

One of the common requests I see in the forum is how to implement RBAC. While you can implement Yii 2's built-in RBAC, that might be too much for developers who are just starting with Yii 2 or have simpler needs. Sometimes you are looking for a fast solution and just want two flavors, user and admin. And even if you will eventually need more, you can use these methods as a starting point for devel...

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Running applications with Docker

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

When building PHP web applications you usually have to take care about defining and providing a consistent development and production environment for your team. This includes your application packages, PHP-extensions, database servers and often further components such as a mail server or workers.

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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

YII2 Pagination Options

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

solution here If we are using default pagination option like

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips

`forceCopy` per Asset Bundle

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

During development and depending on your setup you may need to use the options forceCopy or linkAssets of the asset manager to work around possible file-system and permission issues.

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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

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

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

Profiling using XDebug

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

A short explication on how to extract profile information for PHP on your server using XDebug and KCacheGrind or WinCacheGrind.

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Version: all
Category: How-tos

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

YII2 : simple language Switcher Widget

Created 8 years ago by phunsanit, updated 8 years ago by phunsanit.
  1. create file common\components\languageSwitcher.php
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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Single PHP entry point with Nginx

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

In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.

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Version: all
Category: How-tos

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

Installare Yii 2.0.* usando XAMPP su Windows in versione portabile

Created 9 years ago by realtebo, updated 8 years ago by realtebo.

Personalmente trovo che la versione "portable" sia molto più semplice da aggiornare, ed io tengo sempre costantemente aggiornato TUTTO il parco software relativo al mio webserver.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

[Guide] How to actually separate Frontend (User) and Backend (Admin) on Yii2 Advanced

Created 8 years ago by Wade Shuler, updated 8 years ago by samdark.

I am writing this guide because I struggled to find a resource that included ALL of the necessary steps to completely separate the frontend from the backend. After reading guides like Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in yii-advanced-app and [yii2 configuring d...

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Version: 2.0
Category: How-tos

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
Category: How-tos

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

Export query content to excel through any of your controllers, also can set cssClass for header/odd/even rows, auto download

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

To generate excel by query content, and download through any controller. You also can bind cssClass to header/odd/even rows. As for header, you even can set cssClass for each column.

$this->export2excel($excel_content,$excel_file);

in your controller.

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tutorials

Load & Save With Relation

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

Use this extension : yii2-relation-trait

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Version: 2.0
Category: Tips