The CGridView widget is very useful and customizable, but sometimes you need a little more. One limit I found is to have only one row for headers; yes, you can write each column header in more than one row, but just inside the single cell. I was looking instead for the possibility to use more than one row, with different structure one from the others. This way **you can write columns grouping h...
Backoffice Grid Views often list information like Posts for a blog while showing at the same time linked information like the User who wrote that post. For more efficiency, it is appropriate that the User is displayed as a link to the User detail page.
There are cases you want to update a record on CGridview directly
A little hint of how to create a progress bar inside the column of the grid, using the 'bootstrap' extension.
After of model update (successfull or not) throught CGridView (check the below link) you probably need to updates the specific row html in cgridview (not entire cgridview)
Let's take the example of the above article to display an email button next to a delete button:
Sometimes text inside a gridview column is just too long. That's why I figured out a way to make the column smaller while still providing the information.
I recently had to have a checkbox column in my grid view that supported the 'disabled' attribute. This was easy enough to do by extending the CCheckBoxColumn. However, I also wanted the checkbox to be selected when clicking on the table's row (supported via CGridView's selectableRows option). I discovered I had to tweak yiigridview.js so that it would not select disabled rows when clicking on it o...
How to display status image on admin gridview.
Here's a tutorial on how to create a CGridView with external date filters
the trick is to create hidden columns within the CGridView Filters
something like in the example below:
Hi friends,
Clearing CGridView filters and sort orders from the web pages, is usefull for the end user. Yii does not seem to propose a standard method. Furthermore, this is especially usefull when filters are "remembered" in the user's session.
Generally we need to show one or more fields from a model that is related to another model used in CGridView. For our case we will use two related models, which explain how to use model "A" fields in a CGridView that used model "B".
Assume that you have teachers and students model.
Lately, i needed to deal with the following scenario: read from two databases (db1,db2), and write to a third database (db3).
1) Add a fancy-box extension on admin page
CGridview displays existent rows of the table (using DataProvider)
You can find the reason why I wrote this article here.
Hi Friends,
Changing the way a CGridView is rendered from the configuration file, or through behaviors specified at the moment it is used, is handy to extend a CGridView without creating tons of different classes for it. I am surprised that this is not in the default implementation, so I made my default CGridView implementation.