Deny user agent strings Yii

array(
    'deny',
    'expression' => function(){
        return strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== FALSE;
    },
    'message' => "You're using the wrong browser, sorry.",
),

Use BETWEEN AND Clause in Yii QueryBuilder

$command=Yii::app()->db->createCommand();
        $command->select('SUM(amount) AS sum');
        $command->from('sale_info');
        $command->where('user_id='.$_GET['users'].' AND ratingtyle="Initial"');
  $command->andWhere('created_date>:start', array(':start' => $_GET['startdate']));
  $command->andWhere('created_date<:end', array(':end' => $_GET['enddate']));
        echo 'Initial Fee: '.$command->queryScalar();

CDbCriteria addBetweenCondition or filter by date range

// $criteria->addBetweenCondition($column, $valueStart, $valueEnd, 'AND');

$criteria = new CDbCriteria;   
    $criteria->addBetweenCondition('actual_completion_date', $_GET['startdate'], $_GET['enddate'], 'AND');  
 $criteria->group = 'client_id';
      
 $dataProvider = new CActiveDataProvider('SaleInfo', array(
                        'criteria'  =>  $criteria,
                        'pagination' => array( 
                            'pageSize' => 20,
                        ),      
                    )
                );

Invisible/hide rows in CGridView rowCssClassExpression

$this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
 'id'=>'ordersort-grid',
 'dataProvider'=>$dataProvider,
 'rowCssClassExpression'=>'$data->dateleftint($data->order_id, $data->quantity, $data->order_date) >0?"row-open":"row-closed"',
    'htmlOptions'=>array(
  'class'=>'table table-striped table-hover table-bordered',
  ),
 'columns'=>array(
  'order_id',
  'name',
  'quantity',
  
   array(
      'header' => 'Day Left',
      'value'=>'$data->dateleft($data->order_id, $data->item_id, $data->quantity, $data->order_date)',        
      'type' => 'raw',
   'cssClassExpression' => '"foo" . (2+3) ."bar"', 
   
    ),
   

             array(
      'name'=>'employee_id',
      'header' => 'Employer',
      'value'=>'($data->employee_id=="")? "Not Selected" : $data->Employerr->company_name',        
      'type' => 'raw',
    ),
  'total',
  'paid',
  'due',
       
  'active',
  'paid_opt',
  'process_by',
  'process_date',
 
  array(
   'class'=>'CButtonColumn',
                         'template'=>'{process}',
                    'buttons'=>array
    (
        'process' => array
        (
            'label'=>'Post job/adv',
            'url'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("order/jobpost", array("id"=>$data->id))',
  'visible'=>'$data->dateleftint($data->order_id, $data->quantity, $data->order_date) > 0 ? true : false;'
        ),
                        
),  ),
 ),
));

how to set the hidden field

hiddenField($model,'added_by',array('value'=>Yii::app()->user->id)); ?>

Gii generate model and CRUD for Module

 Generate a model for module using Gii

Generate CRUD for model in a module

Multiple database in yii

'db'=>array(
   'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test',
   'emulatePrepare' => true,
   'username' => 'test',
    'class'=>'CDbConnection',
   'password' => 'test@2014test',
   'charset' => 'utf8',
  ),



'db2'=>array( 
   'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=*****net',
   'emulatePrepare' => true,
   'username' => '*****net',
   'password' => '*******',
    'class'=>'CDbConnection',
   'charset' => 'utf8', 
  ),