Taking futher the idea from Piotr Masełkowski - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/elipsum/ here's how to generate multilanguage Lorem Ipsum text. This example uses English and Bulgarian sample paragraphs. Create a class in /protected/components/LoremIpsum.php. Wall of text incoming wohoo...
I've seen many tickets regarding how to show friendly delete confirmation using CGridView's CButtonColumn in ajax request. If you are using relational database, after producing CRUD functionality when you try to delete a record in ajax mode which has child record it can't be deleted and you can see the ajax loader forever. By this way you can't show the users if a record has been successfully dele...
In this article you'll learn how to send additional form data when uploading files using XUpload widget
<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>
I keep a reference to some simple but painful task if you forget a common or something. I am new to Yii and this took awhile for me to figure out. Everything I read said do this or do that and not a single one worked for me. However, the following did.
This is what I did. Its the EASIEST solution that I know of. I just reused the advanced search done in CGridView.
I recently created a project called Yii-App on GitHub to kickstart my development of smaller Yii applications. The main goal of the project is to provide a ready-to-use application template that includes my bootstrap extension and many other useful extensions. After reading this article you will be able to use...
I discovered Twitter Bootstrap almost two years ago. After trying it out for a while I fell in love with it. It didn't take long before I realized that it would be great to write an extension that allowed developers to start using Bootstrap in their Yii projects. One night I sat down and started writing what later became my now popular [bootstrap extension](http://ww...
will generate twitter bootstrap styled breadcrumb code:
protected $_viewFile
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');
Cookie management in Yii is easy, but may not be so obvious for the beginners to this framework, so I wrote this simple article to clear some doubts out.
This is the code in the View.
<?php echo CHtml::link('MyDialog', Yii::app()->createUrl('site/page'), array('class' => 'openDlg divDialog')); ?>
<?php
$this->beginWidget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiDialog', array('id'=>'divDialog',
'options'=>array( 'title'=>Yii::t('Dialog Title', 'autoOpen'=>false, 'modal'=>true, 'width'=>600)));
?>
<div class="divForForm"></div>
<?php
$this->endWidget(...
To accomplish the task of changing Migration table's name, by default tbl_migration, you need to add the following in your ./protected/config/console.php.
Sometimes text inside a gridview column is just too long. That's why I figured out a way to make the column smaller while still providing the information.
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.
