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After enabling the Gii module in your protected/config/main.php file and then try to use it with http://example.com/index.php?r=gii, you get an error: ~~~ Error 403 You are not allowed to access this page. ~~~ This is almost certainly caused by the IP filtering mechanism that Gii uses to protect your system from outsiders - by default it allows localhost only (both IPv4 and IPv6), and r...

Since PHP is dynamically typed language, the way IDE may help you is limited.

You have to extend the widget class and configure it for user login widget

This had me stumped for a while so I figured it would be nice to share here to avoid others the grief.

I've seen a lot of people asking about the logging facilities in Yii and thought I'd share a nice little class I wrote that provides near real-time logging.

Most controls that are rendered by CHtml have an argument called $htmlOptions. This argument is an array that holds the attributes of the HTML element. For example the following code:

Delploying anything using joomla's framework is quite difficult. The framework don't provide a good MVC structure and the documentation is very poor.

Create a folder where to place an Yii app under wordpress folder (mine is "yii')

Almost all Yii applications use CMenu at the top of each page to show options available to the user, and many include drop-down components to allow more fine-grained selection.

If you are testing your app and use urlManager in your config, sometimes you will find a problem: you want to test your site independing from urlManager settings. in that way you need to extend your WebTestCase class by this method:

When using the latest stable jQuery UI themes (1.8.10) with Yii 1.1.6 (which uses 1.8.6) the widgets don't appear (they're invisible but they're there). In order to make them visible you need to change the following line:

For some applications it can be advantageous for administration reasons to allow site administrators to login as other users. This is sometimes called user impersonation or "becoming that user".

Hi, I was having problems each time I had to test the site or edit something on my local machine, like changing the db connection, change the debug mode to false, the trace level to 0, disable Gii, etc. So I created a class to resolve all my problems, hope to help you in your projects!

Many applications wish to obtain parts of the URL for the current page (the hostname, the query string, etc.), and the CHttpRequest class wraps various $_SERVER variables to break down the URL into its constituent parts.

At first, create a class named SmartyRenderer under application/components or any directory you want.

<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(

'dataProvider' => $dataprovider,
'id'=>'recipient_table',
    'selectionChanged'=>'updateEditForm',
'columns' => array(
	'rec_id',
            'org.nachname',
            'org.vorname',
            'org_id',
            array(
                'class'=>'CButtonColumn',
                'template'=>'{...

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.

Hello, this article will describe some aspects about caching controllers with filters() method in your controller. And I will describe some problems I meet when using this approach for caching, the main problem was

The two most commonly-used base classes in most Yii applications are CController and CActiveRecord, each extended to your own particular models and controllers.

Gii provides us normally with the following code on the 'actionCreate':

public function actionCreate()
{
   $model=new ModelName;