If you're working a lot with extensions you often stumble upon problems, when you want to include them into your custom web application, like hardcoded or absolute path aliases or classes extended from core application components, which implement addiditonal features.

I am going to show you an effective way to validate the uniqueness of multiple columns.

But in the supposedly small share of webapps that don't ask users to activate their accounts, you can end up with a number of bounce messages and non-accessible active accounts.

This page is created to supply short directions and general tips for managing a Yii application in Codelobster PHP Edition.

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

When someone want to send formatted HTML mails from a console application she/he will probably come across the problem of rendering view files.

In this wiki, I try to implement a simple authorization schema without putting much logic inside a file or into database table. We are constructing authorization hierarchy inside the controller. We are getting roles for the current user from database table and assigning only roles to user that are declared in the particular controller. We have brought down the work of loading of auth data at ma...

There are cases that you want to validate the file format, size, extension etc but how to do that without submit the form ?

How to check the online users or how to logout a specific user from your admin panel? This wiki shows how to do that

If you are lucky enough and have the privilege to develop on a Linux based environment, this little tip might boost-up your TDD process (at least the Unit Testing part). Please note, that this should work just fine with Apple computers also, but not tested!

Assume that you have teachers and students model.

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.

All the basic functionality for an action used by the xupload extension. Check resources for the source code of this action

Yii's CArrayDataProvider is very helpful to display model relation data's directly on it.But it is truely a confusing one because by default it will assume a table field named “id” as primary key for its pagination purpose and what if you dont have field named “id” as primary key on your table? so its truely confusing and if you tried to display without an “id” field on ur table you will get an...

First of all this is a very common problem, for more details see this post http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/52052-upload-file-with-any-charset/

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

Since version 5.4 PHP can work as a simple webserver so you can develop Yii applications without installing Apache. That's how to use it:

I did not invent this instructions, I read it somewhere and re-organized in my way as I was trying and it works for me;

While rewriting the PcReportContent extension I'm maintaining I've bumped to a challenge. This wiki was born out of it.