Yesterday, I wrote an AJAX shopping basket widget which, as I’m sure you can imagine, I wanted to refresh when items are added or deleted. However, having written the code to display the widget it confused me for a while … Continue reading
May 17th, 2012
This is a continuation of two previous articles, How to make a dynamic Sub-menu and How to make a dynamic sub-menu – UPDATE, which show the mechanisms by which you can build a dynamic submenu system, populating the dropdowns from the relevant controller. … Continue reading
May 1st, 2012
Here are some nice examples of using the logging facilities in Yii PHP | copy code |? 0102 ‘log’=>array(03 ‘class’=>’CLogRouter’,04 ‘routes’=>array(05 array(06 ‘class’=>’CWebLogRoute’,07 // you can include more levels separated by commas08 ‘levels’=>’trace, info, error, warning, vardump’,09 // categories are those you used in the … Continue reading
April 24th, 2012
I needed an email mechanism for a customer that was light and easy to configure. Yii extensions I tried several email extensions from the Yii website all of which I found overly complex to setup and use. I then remembered … Continue reading
April 5th, 2012
Part 2 (see part 1 here) PHP | copy code |? 1 array(2 ‘class’=>’CButtonColumn’,3 ‘template’=>’{update}{add}{delete}’, Always set the class to CButtonColumn. The ‘template’ option enables you to name your buttons as you wish. Yii understands the basic crud names of ‘update’, ‘view’ and ‘delete’ but … Continue reading
February 28th, 2012
This was a tough one today and I found the solution in a number of places, but this one was the most helpful. Problem I’ve got an Property Rental application which also holds availability by dates for each property. If … Continue reading
February 23rd, 2012
I recently spent an hour or so trying to reduce the width of columns in a CGridView. As I was trying to squash the grid into a narrow space, I wanted some columns to be narrower than others. I tried … Continue reading
February 21st, 2012
To exit or end processing in a controller action use the end function PHP | copy code |? 12 Yii::app()->end();3 4 For example; this may be used to terminate processing if invalid, incorrect or missing parameters are passed PHP | copy code |? 12 3 if (empty($_GET))4 Yii::app()->end();5 6
February 13th, 2012
updated: 5-Apr-2012 A simple example of a method to upload and save images. In this example, I created a “Photo” model that saves caption & alt text info to be displayed with the images. If you create a similar model … Continue reading
February 5th, 2012
Moving on from my last post on Yii validation rules for text fields, next I am going to be looking at validating dates and date ranges. The date validator CDateValidator was added to Yii in release 1.1.7 and provides an easy … Continue reading
February 1st, 2012
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