Wiki articles in category How-tos tagged with "yii2"

\yii\mail\BaseMailer::useFileTransport is a great tool. If you activate it, all emails sent trough this mailer will be saved (by default) on @runtime/mail instead of being sent, allowing the devs to inspect thre result.

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

In advance template there is already a file yii. And there is no need to run it as php, it is Linux script.

I wrote about this on my blog, but wanted to post it here too.

Yii2 introduces the BootstrapInterface to ease our application initialization tasks, whether they are composer based or Application bootstrap (do not mistaken with Bootstrap CSS Framework) based tasks. On this article, I am going to explain how to use it on y...

One of the things you will find tricky to implement is the the sorting and filtering of a GridView's column that displays related model data.

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In Yii 1.x, there was a built in widget CStarRating based on the jquery star rating plugin. There exists no prebuilt solution in Yii2, however the same concepts can be extended using any jquery plugin.

The yii2-datecontrol extension allows you to control separate date formats for display and saving for form inputs.

This is for folks who are using \kartik\widgets\FileInput to upload files from your client. How do you display an image for update after you have uploaded it to the server using the widget?

I am still new to composer and packagist, so I want to share how I am creating the pdf files because for me was not as simple as it should be.

I could make this work following same useful tips from this post.

This wiki will explain how you can use the Field range extension with multiple Bootstrap form layouts (vertical or horizontal). You maybe aware, that the yii2-field-range extension enables you to easily setup ActiveField range fields with Bootstrap styling. You basically can setup two attributes joined together like a single field with combined validation error block.

It is quite simple, but I am sure this small tutorial will help more than one of you out there :)

Are you using the Bootstrap 3 form styles with Yii 2 Active Forms? Have you faced problems in displaying complex layouts which needs you to display multiple inline form fields in a single row, within bootstrap horizontal forms. Then read on.

Implementing a role based access control is a very easy process and you can even load your roles from the database if you want.

Here's a possible implementation for MongoDb of the RBAC standard. Create a class "MongoDbManager" in `common\components and modify your params.php` file like this:

This is an extension to Yii 2.0: Write & use a custom Component in Yii2.0 for Advanced Template

This is as an extension of this wiki by Kartik V which shows to make different enableAutoLogin cookies for frontend and backend.

Here is a example on how to use Pjax with GridView (yii\grid\GridView) and ActiveForm (yii\widgets\ActiveForm) widgets in Yii2.