Wiki articles in category Tutorials

This article discusses how one can run a long task in background in yiiframework 1.1 using Ajax technique.

For some applications it can be advantageous for administration reasons to allow site administrators to login as other users. This is sometimes called user impersonation or "becoming that user".

The only thing required is simple, we just need to create a view that will be partially rendered by a call to a controller (using renderPartial) and make sure that we process output -setting to true the parameter on the function. Everything will work as expected but...

To extend the functionality of you web application relative to your requirements you are supposed to use existing yii core libraries or use external libraries. There are some steps to ensure security, uniqueness, modularity, performance and to avoid rework in future.

Step 01: Have a Strategy

• Is my extension just for fun/demonstration purposes or for everyday use in the real world? -...

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.

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

Lots of people are asking how to solve it with YII,We think its difficult with YII. But its easy to solve . There is no database triggers needed . we can simply sove it by extending a class(say "RActiveRecord") from CActiveRecord .Then extend all our model classes from that class.

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

>Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript software, offering a Web 2.0 approach to popup windows. It streamlines the use of thumbnail images and HTML popups on web pages. > > + No plugins like Flash or Java required. > + Popup blockers are no problem. The content expands within the active browser window. > + Single click. After opening the image or HTML popup, the user can scroll further down...

这篇文章将介绍使用Linux cronjobs去自动化执行Yii Console Application(控制台)任务，像每天晚上执行缓存清理，临时文件清理，发送邮件，网站备份等等，重复的工作都交给服务器后台去完成，Yii本身已经提供了强大的支持，我们所做的工作就很少,当使用yiic webapp 自动生成工程结构时，强大的Yii已经全部帮我们生成好，仅仅只需三步。

In this wiki I will show how to display data from two tables in Bootstrap TbGridView using dataProvider.

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.)

In order to nicely display flash Messages, create view like this called views/site/dialog.php :

This tutorial assumes some basic knowledge of Yii and a functional development environment.

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.

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.

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

First, you have to have create database table for default language and allowed languages.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_languages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `lang` varchar(2) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `flagpath` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_...

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