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The CMenu class provides some useful features for generating menus in your web application.

Application configuration determines how an Yii application should behave, because it is the only parameter passed in the entry script. An application, on the other hand, needs to behave differently under different circumstances. For example, an application may need different configurations when running in production mode, development mode and testing mode; In a team development environment, each...

Yii core messages refer to static text strings in the core Yii framework code which are meant to be displayed to end-users (e.g. core exception messages, default validation error messages). Customization of these core messages is needed in two circumstances:

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

Because Yii intends to be integrated nicely with third-party libraries, it does not define any global functions. Everything in Yii needs to be addressed with full class name or object scopes. For example, to access the current user, we need to use Yii::app()->user; to access application parameters, we need Yii::app()->params['name']; and so on. While editors like textmate can help alleviate...

Original source code and idea are from: PHP, PDO & Nested Transactions.

CHtml::ajaxLink(), CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton() and similar methods are great, but if they are located inside a portion of the page that is already loaded via ajax something bad will happen, something you may even not notice if you are not using tools like firebugs...

Most controls that are rendered by CHtml have an argument called $htmlOptions. This argument is an array that holds the attributes of the HTML element. For example the following code:

Yii's by-default directory organization works well enough, but there are several steps one can take that improve the security and serviceability of the system, especially in the context of multiple Yii projects on the same machine (including multiple versions of the same project).

I have a table (account) which contains "General Ledger" accounts. Each account has its own account_description - such as 'inventory', 'sales', etc.

Have you ever wanted to use an auto-complete field to look up a user or some other data, but want the database ID of that user or data returned as well so that you can more easily perform some function when the form is submitted? Thanks to Yii's CAutoComplete widget and [jQuery's Autocomplete plugin](http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jq-autocomp...

Hi Friends,

This had me stumped for a while so I figured it would be nice to share here to avoid others the grief.

I had created one controller file which can create sitemap.xml file(which is used for seo, google crawler and many other puropse) dynamically with one run.

We can use a CJuiDatePicker for a CGridView inline filter.

Let's say you have an internal messaging system in your webapp, and you want to display messages dynamically and real-time to the relevant recipients.

The official Yii project site now supports OpenSearch. This means you can customize your browser's search box to enable direct search of the content in yiiframework.com. For example, by entering a Yii class name in the browser's search box, the corresponding class API page will be shown in the browser.

This artical is related to allow user to filter CGridView with date range using datepicker on submit button. Here I use Yii Cookie to preserve date in datepicker textbox after submitting the form.

Note: Please also take a look at the newer EMenu extension. This works even better that the deprecated CDropDownMenu!

I was wondering how to set-up the application parameters in the back-end to use them all around the application without the need of using the database and I came up with this solution, I hope it helps somebody else.