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Once you are completed with the "Creating First Yii Application", the following can be done.

Some PHP installations may use a different php.ini file for CLI PHP (command line PHP parser). As a result, when running the model or crud command in yiic shell, you may encounter errors like "YiiBase::include(PDO.php): failed to open stream..." or "...could not find driver", even though the requirement checker confirms you have PDO and the corresponding database driver.

Here is a way to dynamically extend tabs based on clips.
Probably even more complex things could be done.

Missed of autocomplete in bash console commands yii make me sad.

This behavior will automatically set timestamp fields to the row creation and modification times.

How to display status image on admin gridview.

Here is a quick tutorial for connecting Yii with Twitter using the Pogostick Yii Extensions Library.

While yiic shell tool is very convenient at generating skeleton code in our application, the generated code is not always what we want. For example, we may want the generated code to carry specific copyright information; we may want to use our own coding style; we may want to add more features; and so on. All these can be accomplished easily in Yii.

The issue is covered in "The Definite Guide to Yii" (Error Handling - Handling Errors Using an Action).

This is a central location to collect links to "Getting Started" documentation beyond the blog demo and Creating First Yii Application. Please help the community by adding general, introductory links and descriptions to this page.

Simple Ajax popup view with Ajax link

Installing WAMP on XP was pretty easy; W7 is not so trivial. It's not difficult once you know, but it took me best part of a day to figure out and required gleaning various bits of information from around the web; this tutorial brings it all together in one place to (hopefully) make other peoples lives that bit easier. It does assume that you are reasonably happy configuring Apache, PHP, and MySQL...

To get multi level dropdown menu of using boostrap extension (http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/bootstrap/) widget TbNavbar just follow steps

Un aspecto del diseño de interfaces de usuario tiene que ver con la coherencia del diseño y uso de colores entre los distintos componentes de interfaz de usuario utilizados.

Facebook Deauthorize callback is used to getting notification to the app owner when a user uninstall our app from their fan page or profile.

In Yii, we can define an action class and ask the controller to instantiate it. And we always create ourselves actions class in rootPath/protected/extensions, and the view file we called in the actions class always are located in rootPath/protected/views/ControllerNAME or rootPath/themes/ThemeNAME/ControllerNAME, then when we use the same actions class in different controllers, we have to copy it...

When you are handling so many projects and those projects are saved in different repository locations, you may find it very difficult to keep track all the versions and revisions manually and it will be much harder if you are developing in multiple repository branches.

CSRF is the acronymn for Cross-site request forgery.
It is an attack which forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which he/she is currently authenticated.

Let's take the example of the above article to display an email button next to a delete button:

Suppose a hacker has an account of your website He could set the PHPSESSID to empty After of that He login in your system The PHPSESSID remains blank and user has already logged with this session