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If you need simple Role based access control without the long RBAC process then this article is just for you. Lets jump to the point.

Let's see what exactly are the events in Yii!

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Remember-filters-gridview is one of the must-use extension on all of my project. However, it lacks of storing the page and sort variables of the grid view.

Many desktop programmers are used to having dynamic forms, where clicking on a record in a parent sub-form, updates another sub-form with the child records. While having many levels of nested sub-forms in a single view might not be such a good idea for a web application, I thought doing it one level deep might be interesting and useful. But, instead of sub-forms I used CGridViews.

When you're finished following this article, you'll have a website that integrates WordPress and Yii routes in under one path. For example, you can setup /widgets and /customers to point to Yii controllers and /about-us, /contact-us, /blog/* and /faq pointing to WordPress pages.

This solution requires Yii 1.1.9 or above

This method allows to log InnoDB monitor output when deadlock error occured. This way we will have much more useful data to find and fix deadlock.

class Post extends CActiveRecord {

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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.

We can use a CJuiDatePicker for a CGridView inline filter.

pagoda box is very useful tool for a programmer to test their php app online so its very useful one. For deploying code pagodabox use git command

When we use multiple radio buttons with same name in Yii many people have the problem on getting the value of the selected radiobutton. The radioButtonList can be used for that, but if we need to use radioButton itself to place the button any where in a view, we need to include one more parameter in htmloption array().

    For each column of the CGridView, we can specify name, value, htmlOptions, cssClassExpression etc. In the declarations of the attributes value and cssClassExpression we can use the "special" variable $data, for example like this:
'value'=>'$data->author->username',.
    Now we might want to use $data in the declaration of the `...

Since version 5.4 PHP can work as a simple webserver so you can develop Yii applications without installing Apache. That's how to use it:

In addition to the opcode cache, APC can also serve as a user cache for Yii via [CApcCache]. It should be noted that this will make APC's memory needs less predictable.

If you like the things to be short and clear, then you can skip right to a short summary of instructions at the end of this article.

This widget will show a Facebook "like" button and "comments" box together with "tweet" button and "google plusone" button on your page.

You can find the reason why I wrote this article here.

The most difficult thing in a big project, is to manage conflicts with files modified by others users. Git can do this work for us.

I've found useful to have a step by step reference guide to work with Git with most used commands, feel free to update it with useful information you may find interesting too.