Wiki articles in category Tutorials

Update: This wiki has been rewritten to be in line with Yii 1.1.14. Since many of the detailed complexities are now handled by Yii, the article focuses on how the crypt() built-in function works and why it's important to use it correctly.

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.

This tutorial shows how to filter CListView items by AJAX, and it's compatible with disabled JavaScript users
In my case this has been done to filter users list

This is a tutorial for how to add input text-Field, check-box, buttons in CGridView.

The easiest way to update content in AJAX is to use the renderPartial method.

Many desktop programmers are used to having dynamic forms, where clicking on a record in a parent sub-form, updates another sub-form with the child records. While having many levels of nested sub-forms in a single view might not be such a good idea for a web application, I thought doing it one level deep might be interesting and useful. But, instead of sub-forms I used CGridViews.

When you define or extend a class, you can create class variables and methods in Yii just like you can in any other PHP system:

class Comment extends CActiveRecord {
    public $helperVariable;
    public function rules() { ... }
    ...
}

and then use them in the obvious way:

$var   = $model->helperVariable;
$rules = $model->rules();

This part everybody understa...

• add under runtime directory, a new one call it search, it will be used for the index files that Zend Lucene will create. Make sure it is writable!

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.

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.

After creating an yii app . we need to implement permission, Authentication and Authorization .so the best way is to use the Yii users and Rights modules.

This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in NetBeans IDE.

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 wiki describes a more complex workflow using the XUpload widget

Assume we want to use a single HTML form to collect input for both model A and model B, and we want to display input errors (if any) in the same error summary box. We can define the following action code:

You have a multilingual application, and you want the URL of a page to be different for different languages, to account for SEO. The URL for the contact page for example should look like http://something.com/en/contact in english, and http://something.com/de/contact in german. This tutorial describes how to make it happen.
Note that currently selected language is always a part...

Often you'll need a form with two dropdowns, and one dropdown's values will be dependent on the value of the other dropdown. Using Yii's built-in AJAX functionality you can create such a dropdown.

In this tutorial we will learn how to realize a create interface using a dialog.

Lets say we have two models and relation between them: