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In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.

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

Many applications wish to obtain parts of the URL for the current page (the hostname, the query string, etc.), and the CHttpRequest class wraps various $_SERVER variables to break down the URL into its constituent parts.

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

This tutorial is for people that are integrating Yii into WordPress. Meaning that WordPress is the host platform, and that Yii will be handling AR, CRUD, etc.

The keywords will be stored in a text field in a comma delimited format. The keywords will be created by the site administrator.

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.

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...

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

This is a reference about model validators and user roles. In many cases we want model validators to applied only for some privileged users or not

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.

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;

The giix code generator has out of the box i18n support for model names and attribute labels (besides other cool features > check it out!) .
But I want to factor in not only the plural form, but also the grammatical cases (especially the accusative) while translating 'Manage Objects', 'Create Object', 'Edit Object' etc.

When I used CJuiTabs I did something. They are

Hi all,

For one of my projects I needed an interactive console command in Yii 1, i.e. the one that is gathering all information from user in an interactive mode (a serie of questions and answers displayed directly in the console), ignoring command-line arguments at all.

1) include the fancybox extesion otherwise fancybox js

I installed phpseclib because I needed to do some AES encryption in my project. After all the hassle of installing php lib, I found out that Yii already has a security module (securityManager). I finally decided to keep using phpseclib because it has one big advantage over Yii securityManager module, it does...

A simple trick to get the localized version of a model field is to add this little method to your models.