In case of a multilingual application, one might consider it a reasonable approach to store the preferred language of the user in a session variable, and after that, every time a page is requested, to check this session variable and render the page in the indicated language.
This tutorial shows a Yii-way of doing this.
We implement an event handler for the onBeginRequest event; as the nam...
The sql 'set time_zone' ensures that all dates retrieved are in UTC time. If your MySql server has the time zone names installed then use 'UTC' instead of '+00:00'.
Copy the code at the end of this wiki for LocalTime.php and DefaultDateTimeParser.php int...
This guide is for more or less advanced users. If you just started with Yii or didn't worked with any web-framework before, you may should come back later :-)
A simple trick to get the localized version of a model field is to add this little method to your models.