Get data the way you want

The ListView widget uses a data provider to display data. Each model is rendered using the specified view file. Step 1 − Modify the actionDataWidget() method this way. public function actionDataWidget() { $dataProvider…

Yii provides a set of widgets for displaying data. You can use the DetailView widget to display a single record. The ListView widget, as well as Grid View, can be…

Yii provides a set of data provider classes that encapsulate pagination and sorting. A data provider implements yii\data\DataProviderInterface. It supports retrieving sorted and paginated data. Data providers usually work with…

Class member variables in PHP are also called properties. They represent the state of class instance. Yii introduces a class called yii\base\Object. It supports defining properties via getter or setter class methods. A getter method starts…

When displaying lots of data, we often need to sort the data. Yii uses an yii\data\Sort object to represent a sorting schema. To show sorting in action, we need data. Preparing the…

When you have too much data to display on a single page, you should display it on multiple pages. This is also known as pagination. To show pagination in action,…

To display data in a readable format, you can use the formatter application component. Step1 − Add the actionFormatter method to the SiteController. public function actionFormatter(){ return $this->render('formatter'); } In the above code, we just render…

You can easily implement a file uploading function with the help of yii\web\UploadedFile, models and yii\widgets\ActiveForm. Create a directory ‘uploads’ in the root folder. This directory will hold all of the uploaded images. To upload…