After installing Yii basic application on our systems, most of the time we want to have multiple environment such as local, dev and live setup. Most of the times when we want to make changes to configuration file, we have to over-write configurations file for each environment.
This will syntax check each php file recursively from the current directory.
There came the need to perform two operations, always, on 'application boot' time. Example? My real world example involved some geo-location logic (that's the first operation) and syncing of some session details so KcFinder can be in sync with the user in context - each user with his own session container (the second).
This tutorial describes how to connect to a remote service via tunnel when only most basic software is available on the remote server. It is not directly related to Yii. It could be hovewer useful for web developers working with shared hosting sites with limited access.
In application development we often have to choose how to mange recurrent values.
I want to create a wiki page, and therefore im opening this discussion on this forum, for answering all questions and see other opinions, how do you use vim with yii.
One of the common tasks the web application might be required to perform, especially the app using some kind of a CMS, is to save the history of data changes. Your client for sure will want the answer to this simple question - If I mess this up or delete by accident can we bring it back? Well, DB backup is one thing and quick recovery is another - let's talk about latter one.
In this post I am going to describe a solution to make your yii-based web application safe from illegal content injections.
In many cases developers of one project use their own local environments for coding. There may be a common test platform and, of course, production. All these environments usually have different DB credentials and directory structures (first of all, path to YII framework directory). Another feature is debugging. It's convenient to turn it on for local environments, eventually - on the test s...
Here are all wiki articles from "Understanding" series by Yii wiki contributors:
Some PHP installations may use a different php.ini file for CLI PHP (command line PHP parser). As a result, when running the model or crud command in yiic shell, you may encounter errors like "YiiBase::include(PDO.php): failed to open stream..." or "...could not find driver", even though the requirement checker confirms you have PDO and the corresponding database driver.
You can find the english version of this wiki here: The complete beginner's study guide for the Yii Framework.
Create param.php file in protected/config
Yii::app()->params['TEXT_ACTIVE'] = 'Active'; //1 for active
I spend a bit of time looking for the this piece of code while building time feature on a site this tutorial also helped Local time zones and locales
You have a 'Category' model with Id, Name and Visibility (boolean, where 0 = Public, and 1 = Private).
To use this "how-to", you need to install phing in your machine.
MultiActiveRecord is an extension that add support for multiple database connection for your application.
You may face a situation when you need to access to a configurable module's property from everywhere and you don't have an instance of this module's class.
While rewriting the PcReportContent extension I'm maintaining I've bumped to a challenge. This wiki was born out of it.
The Google mapping extension by Dos Amigos (link) is really great but there are difficulties with Google maps when you want to manipulate your map object with Ajax.