- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Under the Hood
- 2. Router, Controller, and Views
- Introduction
- Configuring URL rules
- Generating URLs by path
- Using regular expressions in URL rules
- Creating URL rules for static pages
- Providing your own URL rules at runtime
- Using a base controller
- Using external actions
- Displaying static pages with CViewAction
- Using flash messages
- Using the controller context in a view
- Reusing views with partials
- Using clips
- Using decorators
- Defining multiple layouts
- Paginating and sorting data
- 3. AJAX and jQuery
- 4. Working with Forms
- 5. Testing Your Application
- 6. Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
- Introduction
- Getting data from a database
- Defining and using multiple DB connections
- Using scopes to get models for different languages
- Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
- Applying markdown and HTML
- Highlighting code with Yii
- Automating timestamps
- Setting up an author automatically
- Implementing single table inheritance
- Using CDbCriteria
- 7. Using Zii Components
- 8. Extending Yii
- 9. Error Handling, Debugging, and Logging
- 10. Security
- 11. Performance Tuning
- 12. Using External Code
- 13. Deployment
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Using data providers
- Using grids
- Using lists
- Creating custom grid columns
Yii has a useful library called Zii. It's bundled with the framework and includes some classes aimed at making the developer's life easier. Its most handy components are grids and lists, which allow you to build data in both the admin and user parts of a website in a very fast and efficient way. In this chapter you'll learn how to use and adjust these components to fit your needs. Also you'll learn about data providers, they are part of the core framework (not Zii) but since they are used extensively with grids and lists, we'll review them here.
We'll use the Sakila sample database Version 0.8 available at the official MySQL website:
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