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...
We can use a CJuiDatePicker for a CGridView inline filter.
Using filters on CGridView with CActiveDataProvider is easy, but with CArrayDataProvider it is a bit tricky.
class Post extends CActiveRecord {
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}
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When you list Authors in grid you would like to print the count of posts in column, allow sorting on this column and probably filtering by the count.
This tip created in conjunction with IRC #yii channel users emilsedgh and tydeas - thanks!
This is what I did. Its the EASIEST solution that I know of. I just reused the advanced search done in CGridView.
Since I used CGridView for a first time, I didn't like how it handled operations like sorting, filtering, changing page and etc using AJAX.
I have had to do this a couple of times now so I figured I would share it with the community. I am going to keep this short because I really hope that you are familiar with jQueryUI's Sortable class before starting this tutorial.
The easiest way to customize look and behaviour of them is to use series of CButtonColumn properties, like: updateButtonImageUrl (path to image for update button), updateButtonLabel (label for the update button; not HTML-encoded), updateButtonOptions (HTML options for this button, used in the way as many htmlOptions property for many widgets) and updateButtonUrl (a PHP expresion th...