Modify CGridView look

The CGridView class in Yii is a state of art solution, that gives you out-of-the-box full model browsing features including filtering, pagination and sorting. The picture would be perfect, if not for default look of grid view, which is a little bit “nasty”! :> It is understandable, as Yii author focused himself on delivering perfectly working framework, that does not necessary have to be pretty in the same time.

However, basing on famous flexibility of all components in Yii, with a help of few simple steps, you can completely change the look & feel of your grid view.

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Understanding… series of articles for Yii 1.1

Suppose, you place your self somewhere in the middle of Yii 1.1 experience ladder. You’re no longer new to Yii 1.1, but you’re not an experienced Yii developer in the same time. In this case, I strongly encourage you to spare half an hour or so on reading articles in Yii Wiki, that are grouped in this table-of-contents article. These articles contains a lot of useful information, a must-know for all experienced Yii developers, that are mostly not know to those with middle experience

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Populate record

You can use CActiveRecord::populateRecord method in Yii to create new record basing on existing one. And, as this descriptions means, you must use it like that:

[code language=”php”]
$data = $this->getUser($id);
$model = new Users;
$model = $model->populateRecord($data, FALSE);
[/code]

instead of (last line):

[code language=”php”]
$model->populateRecord($data, FALSE);
[/code]

because populateRecord creates new model instead of modifying existing one!

Rapidshare-like routes and other urlManager examples

Here is just a bunch of Yii forum topics, that talks various approaches to make Yii application serve Rapidshare-like routes, i.e. URLs without action (with just the controller) or without both controller and action:

1. URL without route and view?.
2. Routing www.domain.com/username.
3. Slugs.

That’s just a memo for me and a start point for future reading, nothing else.

Calling AJAX directly after page loads

It is a simple example how to call AJAX request right as page loads, not requiring user to do any action. This examples correctly handles both expected result and AJAX error and puts it into selected element.

Prevent core scripts from being automatically published in Yii

Yii is automatically publishing core scripts (i.e. jQuery and some others) with each generated page. You may include following piece of code in your application configuration to disable this behavior:

'components' => array(
    'clientScript' => array(
        'scriptMap' => array(
            'jquery.js' => false,
        ),
    ),
)

Refer to Yii API manual, CClientScript::scriptMap section, for more details.