I was recently assigned with the task of integrating several extensive forms into a WordPress website. These forms comprised numerous fields, intricate validation rules, dynamic fields (one to many relationships) and even interdependencies, where employing PHP inheritance could mitigate code duplication.

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.

suppose to have in Mongo a collection "user" like:

A time ago i've met the issue that Yii doesn't run any client-side form validation when submitting the form by CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton. The small javascript below helps to fix it.

This wiki describes a more complex workflow using the XUpload widget

Let's say our table 'mug' has a column named 'color' of the type ENUM('red','green','blue').
We want to replace the textfield for the attribute color in the create and update forms of a 'mug' with a Radio Button List, which has the enum values as options.
This is a rewrite of c@cba in the wiki article of [enumDropdownList](http://www...

This tutorial assumes some basic knowledge of Yii and a functional development environment.

Let's say our table 'mug' has a column named 'color' of the type ENUM('red','green','blue').
We want to replace the textfield for the attribute color in the create and update forms of a 'mug' with a drop down list, which has the enum values as options.
The main code was contributed by zaccaria in the forum (see [this post](...

While there is a reasonable amount of documentation regarding CForm (form builder) and file uploads seperately, there really is not any coverage of both in combination.

We often need to display a success page after the user has submitted a form without problem. We may show some welcome message after a user registers a new account. There are many ways to implement this workflow. In this article, I will explain a method that exploits flash messages.

A common source of confusion among new Yii users is how the 'safe' validator works, how it works with other validators, and why it's necessary in the first place. This article means to clear up this confusion, as well as explain the notion of Massive Assignment.