Wiki articles in category Tutorials

Hello Yii friends

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.)

Validators extending from [CValidator] all have a property named [message|CValidator::message]. You can set this property in the corresponding validation rule to customize the error message. For example, the following validation rule uses an error message that is different from the default one:

Here's a simple way to create a breadcrumb widget to be used in your templates. The idea is just to isolate how the breadcrumb is generated based on an array of crumbs.

The Yii documentation states:

When you need to integrate with other frameworks (e.g. Zend Framework), you have to follow these steps:

I would like to share my little experience with Yii to the community in the form of the below small wiki:

In this guide I will explain best practise regarding performance in MySQL, PHP and of course our loved Yii Framework. Since this is a complex topic, I will start with some basics and then expand this guide from time to time. Since this wiki can become big, you may click on View history - there you can see what changes have been made, so you don't miss anything.

For those who feel, the Controller->accessRules() or RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) is too complicated or doesn't want the username(s) to be hard-coded in accessRules(), here is a very simple, easy-to-implement solution.

In this article, we introduce a set of CSS naming conventions that we have applied in several big projects and achieved success. The goal of these naming conventions is to eliminate the possibility of naming conflicts, facilitate debugging and maintenance, and to simplify the naming process.

To start with you need to download the latest stable release of CKeditor. Extract the downloaded file and place the ckeditor/ folder in your applications webroot directory. (beside "protected" and "css" and other directories)

This is a tutorial for how to auto set model values without any code.

Todos los que hemos empezado a utilizar Yii para crear aplicaciones Web, nos hemos dado de bruces cuando hemos intentado poner a funcionar el RBAC (acceso de control basado en roles).