\yii\mail\BaseMailer::useFileTransport is a great tool. If you activate it, all
emails sent trough this mailer will be saved (by default) on @runtime/mail
instead of being sent, allowing the devs to inspect thre result.
\yii\mail\BaseMailer::useFileTransport is a great tool. If you activate it, all
emails sent trough this mailer will be saved (by default) on @runtime/mail
instead of being sent, allowing the devs to inspect thre result.
https://schema.org is a markup system that allows to embed structured data on their web pages for use by search engines and other applications. Let's see how to add Schema.org to our pages on Yii2 based websites using JSON-LD.
Register an event handler at Object-Level
Upon creating my Yii2 Members System, I have ran into a few snags along the way that forced me to extend and bend Yii2 to my will.
Using a version control system, like Git, is nice. However, when building an extension from scratch and loading it via Composer, it adds a lot of pain in the butt steps. You have to commit your changes, update composer to pull them over, then notice there is an error, fix, commit, update. repeat.. I don't want all my baby steps under Git. Sure, I could edit my commit history, but c'mon. Just let m...
I just chased my tail around for a bit today. I got lost with setting the status of all inputs, and banging my head on why the "validate" function just wasn't working.
A Yii Framework 2 component for using assets in different environments (Local/CDNs)
I was playing around with another PHP framework which I didn't really liked anyway but it had simple and nice integration for PHP built in web server so I decided to write one for Yii (since this is my primary PHP framework)
I am writing this guide because I struggled to find a resource that included ALL of the necessary steps to completely separate the frontend from the backend. After reading guides like Configuring different sessions for backend and frontend in yii-advanced-app and [yii2 configuring d...
1. Create Extension in yii2.
There are a few issues with the other solutions I originally used that I found from other wikis. I address the issues I had in this much simpler and shorter way. I am also going to explain what is going into way more detail than others to help people understand what's going on.
If you develop rather complex applications with Yii2, you might already be familiar with yii2-app-advanced application template. Well, the template is awesome and provides high flexibility regarding code/configuration sharing among parts of an application.
This is to show you how to use Yii2 flash messages with Kartik Growl (bootstrap notify wrapper).
By default, Yii 2.0 chooses to use the non-minified version of Jquery and Bootstrap files (CSS and JS). However, there's a simple way to indicate Yii to use the minified version.
This How-To is useful if you are planning to move the Yii vendor directory outside the default location.
Here is a example on how to use Pjax with GridView (yii\grid\GridView) and ActiveForm (yii\widgets\ActiveForm) widgets in Yii2.
This is as an extension of this wiki by Kartik V which shows to make different enableAutoLogin cookies for frontend and backend.
This is an extension to Yii 2.0: Write & use a custom Component in Yii2.0 for Advanced Template
There is an issue on Yii2 to redirecting / urls to /frontend/web.
In other words we need a way to hidden /frontend/web from addresses.
We will do this without changing Apache configuration and creating virtual host or setting document root (It's good for share hostings that we have not access to apache.conf)