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I hadn't specify whole flow as I assume you know yii crud flow well, and Quick understand of my specified admin flow.. :)

In this article, we introduce a set of CSS naming conventions that we have applied in several big projects and achieved success. The goal of these naming conventions is to eliminate the possibility of naming conflicts, facilitate debugging and maintenance, and to simplify the naming process.

By Integrating the Zend 2.* framework into Yii you can quickly and painlessly generate XML outputs from your controllers. This will be helpful to anyone who has never done this before or only done it with Zend 1 as the introduction of namespaces can be strange when you first view them.

This is a central location to collect links to "Getting Started" documentation beyond the blog demo and Creating First Yii Application. Please help the community by adding general, introductory links and descriptions to this page.

Sometime its very important to perform many actions/operation with limited time frame for friendly use, select2 provides a lot of such functionality , I just extend it tags functionality to provide a quick use for developer to save time, as I spent much time on it.

I found a better solution.

After adding proper form to the main layout, like:

Hi Friends, In this tutorial I write a code display dependent drop-down value using ajax call.

In case of a multilingual application, one might consider it a reasonable approach to store the preferred language of the user in a session variable, and after that, every time a page is requested, to check this session variable and render the page in the indicated language. This tutorial shows a Yii-way of doing this.
We implement an event handler for the onBeginRequest event; as the nam...

I can see many questions regarding configuring the path using Windows OS. I could hardly get the right information about it. The cook book has defined for Linux. So I would like to share my idea on it. To configure the Yii path using Windows OS,

Knowledge is necessary to determine the address of the controller in a single layer system. This allows you to quickly search and painlessly produce refactoring controllers and their addresses.

Assuming that you have already install the wampserver on your windows.

Simple Ajax popup view with Ajax link

The Yii Framework is very powerful and it provides a lot of functionality right from the pre-built webapp. One of the nice things that is already established for you as a developer is the Login authentication. While the default configuration simply sets it up to run against an array of hard coded usernames and passwords, the [Yii Blog Tutorial](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/prototype...

This is the first real problem that I encountered using Yii, trying to make a Model input repeatable in the form, validate and save them.

In this wiki I will show how could use a TbActiveForm for changing the old password with help of old, new and repeat password features.

Add these lines in /config/main.php

'components'=>array(
.........
		'db'=>array(
			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=database1',
			'emulatePrepare' => true,
			'username' => 'root',
			'password' => 'itsasecret',
			'charset' => 'utf8',
		),
		'db2'=>array(
		    'class' => 'CDbConnection',
			'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=databa...

If we want to set meta tags on a per page (controller-action) basis, we may use the clientScript application component.

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

It's well known that there are Lazy Loading approach and Eager Loading approach in the relational query. But it's important to note that you should distinguish 2 different modes in the Eager Loading in Yii 1.1.x.