CGridView (or CListView) together with CActiveDataProvider is a very powerful combination of the built-in tools of Yii. But how do they work together to accomplish their fantastic functions? And what are you expected to do to use them and to customize their behaviors? This article explains the very basics of them.
CJuiDatePicker displays a datepicker. CJuiDatePicker encapsulates the JUI datepicker plugin.
To fix issues with display of special language characters once and for all there's a solution: use Unicode UTF-8 everywhere. If everything is set up to use Unicode, you can use mostly every language in your application.
Previously there was described a way to build an application with front-end and back-end. I would like to continue this theme and suggest another way to organize directories using WebApplicationEnd behavior.
This is a tutorial to work with radioButtonList which will handle enum datatype. Form design and validation both are detailed here.
In this tutorial we will learn how to realize a create interface using a dialog.
Hello ppl. Even though i have a small experience with yii I though of writing this to help people which want to do something similar.
Authentication and Authorization is a good tutorial. Among other topics, it describes basic aspects of Yii's RBAC implementation. But however hard I read the tutorial, I couldn't understand how exactly the hierarchy works. I found how to define authorization hierarchy, how business rules are evaluated, how to configure a...
In this tutorial, we describe how to implement multiple layouts for action views in an application. As an example, we assume that the pages in our application will use three different layouts:
As seen in this post, Yii doesn't enforce how language is set and maintained within the session.
Many Yii users ask how to create helper classes and functions, and though there are numerous approaches spread out among the forum and wiki articles, this Tutorial tries to bring it all together in one place.
Virtually all Yii applications are built on top of a database, and though Yii is very flexible in how it addresses your DB, some design choices make things more convenient than others.
Normally when we want users to download a file, that file is put in a folder under the web application root and the web server does the rest.
Here is a step by step To-Do list for Yii beginners. The list is an advice of what tutorials and documentation you can walk through to get a full understanding of the Yii Framework. These can be a help to learn Yii.
If you need simple Role based access control without the long RBAC process then this article is just for you. Lets jump to the point.
Step1: Download the extension from path 'http://code.google.com/p/yii-mail/downloads/list' .
When creating web-application projects, you can add a great variety of different extensions, modules, plugins or scripts to your code-base. But maintaining a stable combination and updating certain packages can become a hard task.
Start studying the MVC pattern. You will understand the roles of the model, the view and the controller and know where goes each part of the code.