Wiki articles in category How-tos

I'm developing a website that has an option to look up a car's registration number via SOAP and return additional details such as make, model, colour etc.

Since version 1.0.4, Yii developers can make use of the image gallery provided by Sebastian Tshan, a great javascript developer that has created some true gems like the jquery file upload plugin.

So here is my complete solution - note that I'm using the 'short' date format throughout.

This article is for those who have dealt with the complexity of Elasticsearch or any other indexing machines and are looking for an easier way to index the existing database without additional effort.

Using CActiveRecord->updateAll() and CActiveRecord->deleteAll() with scopes and criteria requires some tricks that are explained in this article. While findAll() , find() and some other methods use scopes automatically, updateAll() and deleteAll() do not.

I found a standard Yii app's protected folder structure nearly perfect. With a few simple moves and a little bit change to the code, I managed to bring it to the level, which I found as fully perfect. I want to share my point of view, in case someone would like to use this structure as well.

This article explains how to easily turn standard text-line validation errors into beautifully and professionally looking Twitter Bootstrap's Popovers.

This example includes a composite condition as well as an empty condition - as if you bypass or disable defaultScope without using resetScope().

You have that, when a product is on development they can change its API anytime. This change is quite important though, its related on how to set the events of your form, for example, the useful beforeSubmit.

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.

Some of you have experienced the need to log some information while doing unit testing, due to the fact that the information given in the summary is just not enough, to know why the test is actually failing. this article focuses on 2 ways to get you logs up and running again.

This is to show you how to use Yii2 flash messages with Kartik Growl (bootstrap notify wrapper).

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

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

As you know, the CDetailView widget displays details of a single model. If no formatting is specified, boolean values that are stored in the database as 0 and 1, are represented in the detail view as 0 and 1. If formatted as boolean, they are represented as 'No' and 'Yes'. We want to add i18n support, so that Yes and No appear in the current language.

Countries sometimes change their laws pertaining to time zones and daylight saving times. This means that GMT+2 can be a different local time this August compared to last August! It could even be a different date!

The problem was that all my web applications ran normally on localhost, but on server the Greek characters (or any other no-english characters) displayed with problems.

This solution requires Yii 1.1.9 or above

To use this "how-to", you need to install phing in your machine.

Using a version control system, like Git, is nice. However, when building an extension from scratch and loading it via Composer, it adds a lot of pain in the butt steps. You have to commit your changes, update composer to pull them over, then notice there is an error, fix, commit, update. repeat.. I don't want all my baby steps under Git. Sure, I could edit my commit history, but c'mon. Just let m...