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Does your application need to know user's details on browser details, os and device type? We can use PHP's misc. function to achieve that provided you have an update copy of browsercap.ini

Once you are completed with the "Creating First Yii Application", the following can be done.

Example settings when using Gettext for i18n.

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.

The problem is not new: after setting some filters in a grid (typically in admin view), and gone to another page, returning in the grid's page I would like to find the filters with previous setting mantained.

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.

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.

How to display status image on admin gridview.

Hi Friends,

I'm using PayPal's script from

1) Add a fancy-box extension on admin page

Finding good looking, working and not abandoned gallery manager for Yii 1.x application is a tough task. Out of all I found, only yii-gallery-manager extension looked promising. But, after downloading it, it turned out, that there are certain unusual things to do, to include it in your application. So, I decided to write this article...

We probably have all used a virtual attribute (model function) to retrieve complex or related data for a CGridView column:

1) include the fancybox extesion otherwise fancybox js

This behavior enable you to command the RBAC via console. This avoids you to install a entire rbac graphic toolkit to set up some rules in the rbac, maybe you are running inside a ssh console.

Use this code in your view,make sure to put EAmChartWidget in your extension folder. here is the url of widget http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/eamchartwidget/

Here i am writing code how to add option of theme change and layout change in your website.

Hi Friends, Hi Friends, Some common question is difficult to how to create the layout on yii and how to work

I leverage Kartik's notification widgets.

Yii's ActiveRecord classes are powerful, but they fall short when you want to have a configurable table prefix for your application.