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This will call the controller function using AJAX instead of redirecting the user to the url using GET parameters.

<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>

We all love the convenient gadget, namely jQuery UI Datepicker as an input element for date. Yii supports it as CJuiDatePicker. Let's see how to use it.

Here's a simple way to create a Recent comments showing widget to be used in your templates. The idea is just to highlighting your blog's new comments.

First, you have to have create database table for default language and allowed languages.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_languages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `lang` varchar(2) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `flagpath` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_...

If you are about to create a graph, the best option i would suggest is the jqbargraph.

This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in Codelobster PHP Edition.

I like programing on my localhost, however it really bugged me to make changes to index.php & config files on my production server. After combining all available wiki articles on this topic and some trial and error this is what I use for my applications so I could just upload it to production server and it will work without any changes.

If in your application you have to proceed to a complex SQL query that is not associated to a model, you will use CDbDataReader like it is described in the Yii documentation. An example could be

Sometimes new Yii guys face problem to manage dependent dropDownList using AJAX. I am going to discuss an easy solution about this issue.

In this mini howto I would like to show how to add a required captcha field in the login form, after a defined number of unsuccessfull attempts. To do this, I will use the blog demo that you have in default Yii download package (path/to/yii/demos/blog).

1. Operating system: Windows

In this article i will explain how to customize log activity in database, Imaging you need to save IP user, Url request and user_name in database,But table created by default with Yii only have id,level,category,logtime and message

implementing some features of yii user and rights.

For a complete sample Nginx+PHP-FPM config, view this how-to: Nginx & PHP-FPM

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...

Few days ago i was playing with TCPF plugin to create a PDF files. Since i have checked few available extension and also checked some forum threads but still i dont get my expected result for PDF file.

This is an example for how to create Excel File with PHPExcel library.This article is inspired by Wikki Article return by Antonio Ramirez and extension created by marcovtwout for [PHPExcel library](https://github.co...

if you have use the yiibooster extension, you have definitely used the amazing redactor, html5 and ckEditor editors.

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    Get class constants by token.
    If you set constants with same prefix, like:
	MY_STATUS_1
	MY_STATUS_2
	MY_STATUS_3