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Hey guys. Today we are looking at a very cool and powerful part of the Yii framework – widgets
Not only is a widget is that little purple dude from the cartoon series, but it is also a little “application” almost, which you can use one line of code to call …

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Yep, we want you to tell us what to write about! What Yii tutorial do you want us to publish? Anything from a Yii login system, to widgets, even simple stuff like changing layout, anything you want! Request your desired tutorial below and we will see what we can do …

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Nothing is worse than an ugly URL. Well, Hitler was quite bad, but so are ugly URL’s. Not only are they ugly for your users, but as clever as google is, they are ugly for it too. How is google supposed to know that “products/index.php?cat=3&id=46″ is an iPod nano? Today …

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I’m sure you know MYSQL and you know how to query the database with MYSQL and php. But what about Yii? In this tutorial we will be looking at how to get data out the database with Yii. When querying the database we use the model to get the data …

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Here we will be looking at how to add dynamic data (entries fro ma database table) to a drop down list using Yii’s Chtml listData. Let’s imagine that we have a database table called countries and we want to add a drop down list menu to our view which displays …

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We are going to be looking at Yii’s Gii tool today. What’s a Gii? Well in colloquial slang it’s a gangsta (I think), but in Yii it is the browser based CRUD, model, form and more generator. I’m sure you have more of an idea what a gangsta is than …

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Hello everyone. In this tutorial we will be looking at setting up the Yii framework and create our skeleton app step by step. Lets begin.
Firstly, we need to download the Yii framework. This can be done from the Yii Framework website. When the download is complete, unzip the file and …