Wiki articles in category Tutorials

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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.

You have to extend the widget class and configure it for user login widget

Um aspecto do design da interface de usuário tem a ver com a coerência do design e da utilização das cores entre os diferentes componentes da interface do usuário utilizada.

How to profile user requests so you can determine which actions need an enhancements and optimizations? This wiki going to show you a step by step how to do it.

How many of us wonder how we can upgrade the website without hurting the operation of our WebApp?

In this wiki I will show how could forcing login for all pages and users must be logged in to access almost all of the site’s content.

Sometimes you need to force a user to change their password after x number of days. This article describes how to implement this using a filter, ChangePasswordFilter.

The basic idea is to create a complete mail message and store it a Db table along with all info necessary for sending valid emails (to_email, from_email, from_name, subject etc.)

Next to do is to download the Yii FCKeditor extension, created by Ascomae. Extract the downloaded file, and place the fckeditor/ widget folder in your web applications protected/extensions/ directory.

We will use Symfony 2 components for writing tests for Yii project, it's gonna be fun :).

By default, the expression Yii::app()->user returns a [CWebUser] [application component](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/basics.application#application-component) which represents the information that are closely related with the current user. Some information can be persistent throughout the current user session. For example, [CWebUser] already comes with a [name|CWebUser::name] property th...

Since PHP is dynamically typed language, the way IDE may help you is limited.

In a Web application, we often need to display pages like "about this site", "legal information", whose content are mostly static. There are several approaches to deal with this kind of pages.

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:

Since Yii 1.0.5 you can use named scopes with ActiveRecords. They are a great help in simplifying your query calls.

This tutorial will show you how to use the Pogostick Yii Extension Library to make an HTML TEXTAREA input element into a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor pretty much with very little code.

1) include the fancybox extesion otherwise fancybox js

Below I have created an Html helper with methods to help me locate directories of my assets dynamically. Such assets may include CSS, JavaScript and images.

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