After installing Yii basic application on our systems, most of the time we want to have multiple environment such as local, dev and live setup. Most of the times when we want to make changes to configuration file, we have to over-write configurations file for each environment.
Efficient coding with Yii implies efficient use of the code generator. This article shares the personalised Gii templates that were built starting from the standard templates proposed by AweGen.
** I actually made this into an extension for easier use. You can view the extension: http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/rackspaceconnect/
This article shows a quick and easy way to implement flat user access control system. Flat means, that user access is controlled by level only, which is solution exactly opposite to complex RBAC access systems.
CGridview displays existent rows of the table (using DataProvider)
If you're working a lot with extensions you often stumble upon problems, when you want to include them into your custom web application, like hardcoded or absolute path aliases or classes extended from core application components, which implement addiditonal features.
Using Rights generator component, we can easily create a dynamic menu, in which we scan every modules' controllers, to access the index page of them.
Hello, this article will describe some aspects about caching controllers with filters() method in your controller. And I will describe some problems I meet when using this approach for caching, the main problem was
When talking about cookie-base login the Yii guide indicates the following:
In many cases developers of one project use their own local environments for coding. There may be a common test platform and, of course, production. All these environments usually have different DB credentials and directory structures (first of all, path to YII framework directory). Another feature is debugging. It's convenient to turn it on for local environments, eventually - on the test s...
According to the manual http://jp.php.net/manual/en/memcache.installation.php;
En ciertas ocasiones tenemos que lidiar con el tema de colocar una lista de checkboxes para hacer una seleccion especifica como es el caso de los dias de la semana para un calendario, para esta labor tenemos el comando CHtml::checkBoxList(), revisando un poco el funcionamiento de este temos los siguientes parametros:
Sometime we need to display numbers of items per page with their counting as a serial number.
ChromePHP is a console logging extension for Google Chrome.
If you are hosting Yii behind a reverse proxy, for example nginx, and you are having issues with your logs showing the proxies IP, or the urls being created arn't being created for SSL because your SSL certs are located on your reverse proxy instead of the Yii server, this code may be able to help you. I placed them in the very top of Yii's entry script, index.php
We can easily have a multilingual site if we put a "lang" parameter that comes via GET. For example:
Sometimes you have CJuiDialog with different content but same buttons (or width, height). If you don't want to repeat yourself this is a great solution:
Lately, i needed to deal with the following scenario: read from two databases (db1,db2), and write to a third database (db3).
There are cases that you want to validate the file format, size, extension etc but how to do that without submit the form ?