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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.

This tutorial is explained following "basic" application structure.

I'm using PayPal's script from

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

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

I leverage Kartik's notification widgets.

1. create file common\components\languageSwitcher.php

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

This is how i do before query on Yii 2.0

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.

Use this extension : yii2-relation-trait

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:

I was playing around with another PHP framework which I didn't really liked anyway but it had simple and nice integration for PHP built in web server so I decided to write one for Yii (since this is my primary PHP framework)

Your need: You require that for shared machines, the user is authenticated again for a backend access again, if someone is logged in from frontend and vice versa.

There are numerous usability problems:

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