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So, you have installed a brand new Yii 2 app (basic) or (advanced). Here are a few tips for Apache web server users to get things running more secure and better with your yii2 app.

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Create param.php file in protected/config

Yii::app()->params['TEXT_ACTIVE'] = 'Active'; //1 for active

To get null from database instead of empty strings you need to set up your DB connection as follows:

In this wiki I will show how to copy a schema from a database to another one

Use SQL SERVER 2000, the date format not like: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss. So I change to use SQL SERVER 2008 EXPRESS.

require_once 'Mail.php'; // PEAR Mail require_once 'Mail/mime.php'; // PEAR Mail_mime require_once 'Mail/Queue.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue require_once 'Mail/Queue/Container/mdb2.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue mdb2

If you have read this wiki you would be aware of the yii2-detail-view extension and how it offers you an easy way to EDIT and VIEW your model data, toggle these modes, and other features. You can [read the extension documentation](http://demos....

Suppose you have Products,Categories and each product belongs in many categories

I could make this work following same useful tips from this post.

It is quite simple, but I am sure this small tutorial will help more than one of you out there :)

Once you have installed and configured the rights extension in your application, you can change the table name from 'User' to any table name you want and similarly for 'username' column to any other column name.

This wiki will explain how to include a javascript library in a widget.

Are you using the Bootstrap 3 form styles with Yii 2 Active Forms? Have you faced problems in displaying complex layouts which needs you to display multiple inline form fields in a single row, within bootstrap horizontal forms. Then read on.

Using Rights generator component, we can easily create a dynamic menu, in which we scan every modules' controllers, to access the index page of them.

This is second article with my tutorial. I had to add it, because Wiki article has limited length and as I was extending it's text, older paragraphs were disappearing. So here I am starting from chapter 6.

In this wiki I will show how to Disallowing login from multi places. User can login or access their account at time, only single place.

Generally we need to show one or more fields from a model that is related to another model used in CGridView. For our case we will use two related models, which explain how to use model "A" fields in a CGridView that used model "B".

First, you have to have create database table for default language and allowed languages.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_languages` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(20) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `lang` varchar(2) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `flagpath` varchar(40) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_...

Please consider the following Dear software engineers imagine I have a simple ISA hierarchy: parent A with children B and C. So let's say we have the corresponding tables named "a", "b", "c" and (created with the help of the gii model creator) the classes A, B, C The following is a screenshot from MySQL workbench: ![MySQL workbench screenshot](http://s4.postimage.org/4tuwkm43d/Screenshot.pn...