Here goes a quickie to get started with Yii. Yii is a PHP framework. I won’t go into the very details here, but just be aware that using a framework will help you develop light speed any app that would have taken ages to do without it. I walked through many of them, Zend,...

If you have done the tutorial on How to quickly create base yii app. This is a kind of next step. Once a webapp is created it has no connection to a database. To get the app connected to a database you must provide all the necessary information inside the config file.   Let’s...

Oh my God ! What a strange title !! Well, don’t be afraid. If you been following the other Yii tips this one is going to be easier. Let’s assume you’ve installed Wamp and let’s assume you’ve installed Yii either and that you’ve created your first webapp...

Ok, now your first Yii App is running. You have made some scaffold on one of your databases and everything is fine. Let’s imagine now that you want to have two different looks of your web APP. One look for the guests and one look for the signed in people. Well, let’s use...

Ok, now you have an application running with Yii framework ! You can now benefit from the large amount of extensions provided by the Yii community. But what’s an extension ? Extending Yii There are many ways to extend Yii : modules, components, helpers….but we are going to focus on...

Nowadays, if you want to get in touch with the world, you’ve got to think about the people who don’t speak your native language. In Yii there is a simple mechanism to integrate translation. While it’s a quite a long topic I will try to make it short and basic. The setup It is...

Ok, here goes a fine tip to remove the “index.php” from the URL. I did it on Apache with mod_rewrite on. In your httpd.conf file LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so First of, create a .htaccess file in the roor directory of your webapp (where index.php is), and put...