Modern browsers support SVG, older browsers do not. This replacement for CHtml::image() allows you to handle to propose SVG in an efficient way with PNG as a fallback.

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Example settings when using Gettext for i18n.

To secure your database from inconsistencies resulting from failing (complex) operations, you (should) use transactions. However, complex methods often rely on other complex methods that themselves build on transactions. This HowTo presents a method to nest or embed transactions without relying on the database's nesting capabilities.

When using themes you want to changes some of the translations specifically to the theme while keeping the standard translations for most of the text. Duplicating the main translation file is a headache for maintainance. This how to provides a solution.

Clearing CGridView filters and sort orders from the web pages, is usefull for the end user. Yii does not seem to propose a standard method. Furthermore, this is especially usefull when filters are "remembered" in the user's session.

A dropdown list can be used to select a value, based on which we can filter the data to be displayed. For example, the extension page has a dropdown list to filter the displayed extensions according to the selected category.

Here are all wiki articles from "Understanding" series by Yii wiki contributors:

>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...

This is an incipient implementation of application-driven database with Yii.

The number of languages supported by the standard CJuiDatePicker implementation is limited and the language code to use is different from the application's language code. This Wiki shows how to improve on that.

According to the manual http://jp.php.net/manual/en/memcache.installation.php;

if you have use the yiibooster extension, you have definitely used the amazing redactor, html5 and ckEditor editors.

If you want to edit data directly in the gridview in a 'dropdownlist' style, then you could use the 'type' => 'select' option of TbEditableColumn (YiiBooster) or EditableColumn (x-editable for Yii). This wiki shows how to get data from the db for the 'dropdownlist', by converting AR model data into an array that is passed in json format.

Sometimes we need to create our custom exception and show it to the end user through a friendly way . In this article, I'm showing how to do it using CJuidialog.

This is a simple demo how to use Zend_AMF with Yii.

Your application is international and you have to select the best language for the user. Your user may have selected 'fr_CA' and you have 'fr_FR' or 'fr' available. What do you do? Here is a tip.

I faced many issues when hosted our company website on AppFog.

Finding good looking, working and not abandoned gallery manager for Yii 1.x application is a tough task. Out of all I found, only yii-gallery-manager extension looked promising. But, after downloading it, it turned out, that there are certain unusual things to do, to include it in your application. So, I decided to write this article...

Logging context information (session, user, ...) to the logfile can be of great help tracking down problems with specific users.