I assume you are familiar with accessControl standard filter. It allows you to separate privileges to run some action from action code itself. There is however one problem with most common usage - you cannot use bizRules, at least based on some parameters passed to 'checkAccess' just because it is hard to pass them in accessRules() result.
Everyone have seen a multilayer menu in several CMS
implementing some features of yii user and rights.
CGridView and CListView are great widget to populate records and also provides features like ajax update, column sort, search, drop-down filter, ajax content load and many more...
In this wiki I explain how to show a default popup dialogbox (like Gii does) using an existing module.
There is a few cases that you want more of one CActiveDataProvider displayed in one CGrideView How to do that?
Like gmail, if you have tree or more unsuccessful login attemps a captcha appears
Getting "Expired token" errors ? Here is a solution to avoid invalid CSRF on POST or ajax requests, or user identity changes.
Sometimes you want to use exisiting translations for locales, which do not directly match. An example would be a website targeting Germany (de_de), Austria (de_at) and Switzerland (de_ch, fr_ch, it_ch). Although you may have exisiting translations for German (de), French (fr) and Italian (it), there are problems using it directly.
Lets say we have such a CGridView widget showing a list of users for administrator. Users have status „active“ or „disabled“. Grid widget puts class „odd“ or „even“ to rows and we want to preserve this. So we want to add a class „disabled“ to rows with disabled users.
<?php
$this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
'id'=>'user-grid',
'dat...
For best experience,use Chrome.Other browsers may complain here and there.Sorry,no patience to make happy every freaking browser out there!
I've gotten Yii running cron jobs, and wanted to explain briefly how I did it.
In order to get your Yii logs into Heroku's logs, you have to work a little bit of magic. You'll need to modify the boot.sh script and add the following two lines: ~~~ touch /app/apache/logs/app_log tail -F /app/apache/logs/app_log & ~~~ This will set up the log and tail it so that when you request "heroku logs", this log is included.
A short explication on how to extract profile information for PHP on your server using XDebug and KCacheGrind or WinCacheGrind.
This example includes a composite condition as well as an empty condition - as if you bypass or disable defaultScope without using resetScope().
This article shows one of possible ways to implement menu items (as well as links), which displays a progress / wait dialog and are redirecting browser to destination URL in the same time. This is especially useful, for links or routes that are know to be loaded for a prolonged period of time (i.e. getting a lot of data from database).
This article explains how to easily turn standard text-line validation errors into beautifully and professionally looking Twitter Bootstrap's Popovers.
This page explains how to implement an event and catch that event in a behavior.
In this wiki, I try to implement a simple authorization schema without putting much logic inside a file or into database table. We are constructing authorization hierarchy inside the controller. We are getting roles for the current user from database table and assigning only roles to user that are declared in the particular controller. We have brought down the work of loading of auth data at ma...
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.