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:  instructions inside their source code. All these extensions are directory dependent. To avoid the situation described above, I suggest to implement pseudo-anonymous aliases:
// take the curr...
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...
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In this wiki I will show how could use a Captcha in yii CForm. The easy way to show captcha image is create a form using CHtml method & CActiveForm, but CForm also should be able to show a captcha.
This article shows a quick and easy way to implement flat user access control system. Flat means, that user access is controlled by level only, which is solution exactly opposite to complex RBAC access systems.
You can find the reason why I wrote this article here.
Assume that you have teachers and students model.
Search Models are a very elegant and powerful way to build an Active Data Provider. If you use them a lot, you'll quickly need to use scenarios, which will lead you to a very DRY Controller code.
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.
Sometimes you have CJuiDialog with different content but same buttons (or width, height). If you don't want to repeat yourself this is a great solution:
Sometimes we need to create our custom exception and show it to the end user through a friendly way . In this article, I'm showing how to do it using CJuidialog.
当我们使用Yii数据库去保存Session时，只要简单的配置就可以完成这个功能，在进行性能优化这个主题之前，我们先来查看一下CHttpSession和CDBHttpSession源代码，探讨CHttpSession和CDBHttpSession的流程再进行深一步优化主题。
The Yii Framework provides a sweet functionality that allows you to easily create page specific menus. What does this mean? This allows you to create one layout or CSS styling for your menu, and when each page is loaded, a new set of menu items is loaded in. This is useful for context specific sidebars within your application.
In this tutorial we will be setting up a content type to be ordered by weight using the JUI Sortable plugin.
** I actually made this into an extension for easier use. You can view the extension: http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/rackspaceconnect/
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.
To get null from database instead of empty strings you need to set up your DB connection as follows:
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