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Put attention of the question answer form

There are good reasons to use Google's Content Delivery Network (CDN) to serve jQuery and jQuery UI on your site:

Since PHP is dynamically typed language, the way IDE may help you is limited.

How to create a simple (non-RBAC) authorization system

In a Web application, we often need to display pages like "about this site", "legal information", whose content are mostly static. There are several approaches to deal with this kind of pages.

There are a few settings and plugins that can enhance the development experience with Yii in PHPStorm or IntelliJ IDEA. This article explains how to get the most out of your IDE.

In this article I'll try to explain how to use standard quick search fields in CGridView with customized columns.
For example:
We have a record in a database with field switch having 0 or 1 values. After that we want a user to see on or off instead 1 or 0.
So we do the usual thing:

<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
//.....
array(
    'name'=>'...

I recently created a project called Yii-App on GitHub to kickstart my development of smaller Yii applications. The main goal of the project is to provide a ready-to-use application template that includes my bootstrap extension and many other useful extensions. After reading this article you will be able to use...

Yiinitializr\Helpers\Initializer::create('./../', 'frontend', array(

// will override frontend configuration file
__DIR__ .'/../../common/config/main.php', // merged with
__DIR__ .'/../../common/config/env.php', // merged with
__DIR__ .'/../../common/config/local.php' // merged with

))->run(); `

Yiinitializr\Cli namespace

This namespace brings utilities to interact with...

This is a simple example in Yii2.0 to understand how you can write a custom component and use it inside your app.(basic template)

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.

This is a tutorial for how to add input text-Field, check-box, buttons in CGridView.

Yii's by-default directory organization works well enough, but there are several steps one can take that improve the security and serviceability of the system, especially in the context of multiple Yii projects on the same machine (including multiple versions of the same project).

There are two ways to run a cron job:

Validators extending from [CValidator] all have a property named [message|CValidator::message]. You can set this property in the corresponding validation rule to customize the error message. For example, the following validation rule uses an error message that is different from the default one:

JWT is short for JSON Web Token. It is used eg. instead of sessions to maintain a login in a browser that is talking to an API - since browser sessions are vulnerable to CSRF security issues. JWT is also less complicated than setting up an OAuth authentication mechanism.

This article tries to describe the practical techniques of searching by a HAS_MANY relation using ActiveRecord of Yii 2.0.

This wiki has been replaced by Use crypt() for password storage.

If we want to set meta tags on a per page (controller-action) basis, we may use the clientScript application component.