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} ` V. The Order model would start with:

class Order extends CActiveRecord
{
	const STATUS_INITIATED = 1;
	const STATUS_CANCELED = 2;
	const STATUS_EXPIRED = 3;
	const STATUS_PAID = 4;
	public $statuses = array(
		self::STATUS_INITIATED => 'Initiated',
		self::STATUS_CANCELED => 'Canceled',
		self::STATUS_EXPIRED => 'Expired',
		self::STATUS_PAID => 'Paid',
	);
// more cod...

There are two approaches to converting an Artisteer theme. The first is to simply copy an existing Artisteer – based Yii theme, overlay the CSS and images, then make any necessary tweaks to the layout files. This is undoubtedly the fastest route, but won't teach you as much as doing it from scratch. That's ok. Sometimes getting the job done is the top priority. The second approach is more gen...

These newsletters have always been hard to create as regular web HTML is not properly read by web email interfaces and email clients. I thought that the simplest solution would be to use a web page that would serve as a web version of the newsletter and turn it somehow into newsletter HTML.

If you're working a lot with extensions you often stumble upon problems, when you want to include them into your custom web application, like hardcoded or absolute path aliases or classes extended from core application components, which implement addiditonal features.

1. Create an Active Record Behavior that builds the criteria for the search() method and attach it to your model
2. Modify the search() method of the model to merge the behavior's criteria in with the rest of the searchable attributes
3. Modify the _search form view to add the date range inputs

The Yii Framework is very powerful and it provides a lot of functionality right from the pre-built webapp. One of the nice things that is already established for you as a developer is the Login authentication. While the default configuration simply sets it up to run against an array of hard coded usernames and passwords, the [Yii Blog Tutorial](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/prototype...

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.

If you coming to Yii with experience with Zend Framework for example, most likely you get used to

Zend_Registry::get('paramName');
Zend_Registry::set('paramName');

p.s. latest version of this tutorial is always available unter the docs/ folder of the User Management Module.

One of the common requests I see in the forum is how to implement RBAC. While you can implement Yii 2's built-in RBAC, that might be too much for developers who are just starting with Yii 2 or have simpler needs. Sometimes you are looking for a fast solution and just want two flavors, user and admin. And even if you will eventually need more, you can use these methods as a starting point for devel...

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...

This is a simple example of how we can display images in CGridviews.Imagine that you have an image field in your table ie either a location field or a blob type field used to store the images.

Well I finally had some time and tinkered a bit with the notion of integrating wordpress and Yii. Now for me I wanted to use Yii as a framework to develop wordpress plugins. Using some tips from imasia Article I was able to do a simple integration of yii as a wordpress plugin. The integratio...

This wiki explains how to add calculated fields into your Yii Framework 2.0 gridview with filtering and sorting.

After getting lot's of error and don't know how to perform multiple images api in yii2 finally I get it today

This How-To is useful if you are planning to move the Yii vendor directory outside the default location.

I build this simple PHP class (DialogBox.php at the bottom of this wiki) to help you in the dialog box usage on Yii applications. The goal is run any Yii actions into this dialog box and return the resulting value to the calling instance.

In this article I will show you how to implement a secure password hashing mechanism in your Yii projects using a bCrypt class.

Rights is one of user interface for Yii's Role Base Access Control extension. It is one of most downloaded extensions in Yii's Web.