Wiki articles in category How-tos

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Single table inheritance

Created 13 years ago by samdark, updated 13 years ago by samdark.

Relational databases do not support inheritance so if we need to represent it, we have to somehow store meta info while keeping performance by minimizing JOINs. One way to solve this problem is using single table inheritance. All fields for the whole class tree are stored in a single table. Class name is stored in the type field...

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Local time zones and locales

Created 13 years ago by Russell England, updated 13 years ago by Russell England.

The sql 'set time_zone' ensures that all dates retrieved are in UTC time. If your MySql server has the time zone names installed then use 'UTC' instead of '+00:00'.

Components

Copy the code at the end of this wiki for LocalTime.php and DefaultDateTimeParser.php int...

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Using Pear Mail Mail_Mime and Mail_Queue

Created 13 years ago by Loren, updated 13 years ago by Loren.

require_once 'Mail.php'; // PEAR Mail require_once 'Mail/mime.php'; // PEAR Mail_mime require_once 'Mail/Queue.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue require_once 'Mail/Queue/Container/mdb2.php'; // PEAR Mail_queue mdb2

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Converting an Artisteer Theme to Yii

Created 13 years ago by bglee, updated 13 years ago by bglee.

There are two approaches to converting an Artisteer theme. The first is to simply copy an existing Artisteer – based Yii theme, overlay the CSS and images, then make any necessary tweaks to the layout files. This is undoubtedly the fastest route, but won't teach you as much as doing it from scratch. That's ok. Sometimes getting the job done is the top priority. The second approach is more gen...

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How to write a simple application component

Created 13 years ago by zaccaria, updated 13 years ago by zaccaria.

An application component is a confortable way for share information among all component of the application

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How to generate Yii-like Documentation

Created 13 years ago by Asgaroth, updated 11 years ago by fsb.

Something a good application cant miss is documentation, and what would be better than some nice formatted HTML documentation that can be auto-generated from your code, we know several tools that already do this like phpDocumentor, but today we are introducing Yii Docs Generator...

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Using International Dates

Created 13 years ago by Russell England, updated 12 years ago by nkd.

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

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How to avoid multiple Ajax Request

Created 13 years ago by nickcv, updated 13 years ago by nickcv.

CHtml::ajaxLink(), CHtml::ajaxSubmitButton() and similar methods are great, but if they are located inside a portion of the page that is already loaded via ajax something bad will happen, something you may even not notice if you are not using tools like firebugs...

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Prevent asset publishing for CListView

Created 13 years ago by Mike, updated 13 years ago by Mike.

If you don't want to use any of the AJAX features of CListView and thus want to prevent that it publishes any of its asset files, you can extend it and create a sub class like this:

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Uploading multiple images with CMultiFileUpload

Created 13 years ago by rsingh, updated 13 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.
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How-To: Create a REST API

Created 13 years ago by jwerner, updated 10 years ago by Rohit Suthar.

This article will explain how to create a REST API with the Yii framework.

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Actions code reuse with CAction

Created 13 years ago by Antonio Ramirez, updated 13 years ago by Antonio Ramirez.

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

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

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Configuring controller access rules to default-deny

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 10 years ago by nsanden.

Starting with the blog tutorial, Yii developers are familiar with the notion of access rules defined in the controller, where the actions are allowed or denied depending on the user's name or role.

class CommentController extends CController {
    public function filters()
    {
        return array( 'accessControl' ); // perform access control for CRUD operations
    }

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Create your own Validation Rule

Created 13 years ago by nickcv, updated 12 years ago by Gismo.

Some times the core validation rules provided by Yii won't satisfy all your needs, so you'll need to create your very own validation rule.

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caching controllers with filters()

Created 13 years ago by RusAlex, updated 13 years ago by Maurizio Domba Cerin.

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

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Updating fields on a form with Ajax and Json

Created 13 years ago by Russell England, updated 13 years ago by Russell England.

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.

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Avoiding rendering entire page when using CGridView and CListView via AJAX

Created 13 years ago by xrx, updated 12 years ago by xrx.

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.

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CGridView and AjaxForm Connect

Created 13 years ago by PinkBrainPlan, updated 13 years ago by PinkBrainPlan.

<?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'=>'{...
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How to use Smarty renderer in Yii

Created 13 years ago by dongbeta, updated 13 years ago by dongbeta.

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

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Keeping a running total in a CGridView

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 13 years ago by tydeas_dr.

This tip created in conjunction with IRC #yii channel users emilsedgh and tydeas - thanks!

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Tags: CGridView