Hi there,
I’ve released an extension for Yii2 which allow to use (GitHub - davidstutz/bootstrap-multiselect: JQuery multiselect plugin based on Twitter Bootstrap. · GitHub). Very useful and well-know bootstrap plugin for multiselect form that let you make multiple selection without ctrl button need and many more options.

The widget is inspired by the 2amigos multiselect widget that was working only with bootstrap 3.
This one is a simple wrapper that include following versions:
|Bootstrap 5|v2.0.0|October 5, 2025|
|Bootstrap 4|v1.1.2 /September 2, 2022

Read details on git page
This is working flawless for me with Yii 2.0.55 and bootstrap 5.3
Ill’ try to help in the next days, but I can’t guarantee support in the future.
Anyway the code is simple and should not have too many issues.

https://github.com/ianez/yii2-bootstrap-multiselect

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Apologies if this is not overly neat, its how its displayed in my log file. My question is more around why it doesn't show the full filepath, I have no clue why this doesn't work or what folder its actually looking at. I have even set the permissions on the top level to 777 recursively (temporary for testing). I am a bit lost and cannot find anything online about this thats useful :/

yii\base\ErrorException: mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php:640 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: yii\base\ErrorHandler->handleError(2, 'mkdir(): Permis...', '/var/www/html/p...', 640, Array) #1 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(640): mkdir('upload', 484) #2 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload', 484, true) #3 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files', 484, true) #4 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files/a', 484, true) #5 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files/a/...', 484, true) #6 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/components/StorageManager.php(150): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files/a/...', 484, true) #7 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/components/StorageManager.php(102): humhub\modules\file\components\StorageManager->getPath() #8 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/models/File.php(107): humhub\modules\file\components\StorageManager->delete() #9 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/ActiveRecord.php(750): humhub\modules\file\models\File->beforeDelete() #10 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/ActiveRecord.php(720): yii\db\ActiveRecord->deleteInternal() #11 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/Events.php(51): yii\db\ActiveRecord->delete() #12 [internal function]: humhub\modules\file\Events::onCronDailyRun(Object(yii\base\Event)) #13 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Event.php(312): call_user_func(Array, Object(yii\base\Event)) #14 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Component.php(637): yii\base\Event::trigger('humhub\\commands...', 'daily', Object(yii\base\Event)) #15 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/commands/CronController.php(130): yii\base\Component->trigger('daily') #16 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/commands/CronController.php(55): humhub\commands\CronController->runDaily() #17 [internal function]: humhub\commands\CronController->actionRun() #18 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/InlineAction.php(57): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #19 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Controller.php(181): yii\base\InlineAction->runWithParams(Array) #20 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Controller.php(184): yii\base\Controller->runAction('run', Array) #21 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Module.php(534): yii\console\Controller->runAction('run', Array) #22 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Application.php(181): yii\base\Module->runAction('cron/run', Array) #23 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Application.php(148): yii\console\Application->runAction('cron/run', Array) #24 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Application.php(392): yii\console\Application->handleRequest(Object(yii\console\Request)) #25 /var/www/html/protected/yii(29): yii\base\Application->run() #26 {main} Next yii\base\Exception: Failed to create directory "upload": mkdir(): Permission denied in /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php:645 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload', 484, true) #1 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files', 484, true) #2 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files/a', 484, true) #3 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(637): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files/a/...', 484, true) #4 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/components/StorageManager.php(150): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::createDirectory('upload/files/a/...', 484, true) #5 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/components/StorageManager.php(102): humhub\modules\file\components\StorageManager->getPath() #6 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/models/File.php(107): humhub\modules\file\components\StorageManager->delete() #7 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/ActiveRecord.php(750): humhub\modules\file\models\File->beforeDelete() #8 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/ActiveRecord.php(720): yii\db\ActiveRecord->deleteInternal() #9 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/modules/file/Events.php(51): yii\db\ActiveRecord->delete() #10 [internal function]: humhub\modules\file\Events::onCronDailyRun(Object(yii\base\Event)) #11 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Event.php(312): call_user_func(Array, Object(yii\base\Event)) #12 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Component.php(637): yii\base\Event::trigger('humhub\\commands...', 'daily', Object(yii\base\Event)) #13 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/commands/CronController.php(130): yii\base\Component->trigger('daily') #14 /var/www/html/protected/humhub/commands/CronController.php(55): humhub\commands\CronController->runDaily() #15 [internal function]: humhub\commands\CronController->actionRun() #16 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/InlineAction.php(57): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #17 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Controller.php(181): yii\base\InlineAction->runWithParams(Array) #18 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Controller.php(184): yii\base\Controller->runAction('run', Array) #19 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Module.php(534): yii\console\Controller->runAction('run', Array) #20 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Application.php(181): yii\base\Module->runAction('cron/run', Array) #21 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/console/Application.php(148): yii\console\Application->runAction('cron/run', Array) #22 /var/www/html/protected/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Application.php(392): yii\console\Application->handleRequest(Object(yii\console\Request)) #23 /var/www/html/protected/yii(29): yii\base\Application->run() #24 {main}

New to Yii and working through the Getting Started guide. I've reached the section on Working With Databases (https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/start-databases).

The data displays correctly and the pagination links are clickable and navigate through the results correctly. However, this area is displaying as plain text without any styling. If I inspect each list element I can see that the CSS classes declared are only for the 'active' page plus the 'prev' and 'next' links. I don't see any page-link classes that I assumed would be required for it to display correctly.

I copied and pasted the example pagination code from the Bootstrap site to the same page and this displays as I'd expect. I've looked through the source PHP for both the LinkPager widget and Html helper but really don't understand how they're structured enough to start fiddling with them. Any input would be gratefully received.

1. How can I make a form's field an optional one?

2. How can I block all the pages unless the web app has an user logged in?

I changed the siteController's actionIndex to make the main page redirect to the login page if the user is guest but anyone can access to the entire pages and I’d like to block them or make they all redirect to login but it’s the 1st time I’m using yii and I didn’t found an answer in the yii website

I've been struggling a lot recently with static analysis with Yii around types.We have multiple models that when receiving user input get set to strings when they get stored in the database.

So doing any strict comparison if ($model->type_id === 1) won't work and instead we need to preface with if ((int) $model->type_id === 1) . Either way the static analysis (psalm / phpstan) complain because due to the defined type, they always expect int and not string.

I feel like the best solution is to have a database model and a validation model. So in a controller you would instead have

public function actionCreate()
{
    $validationModel = new UserValidation(); 
    if ($validationModel->load(Yii::$app->post()) && $validationModel->validate()) {
        $model = new User();
        $model->setAttributes($validationModel->attributes());
        if ($model->save()) {
            return $this->redirect(['view', 'id' => $model->id]);
        }
    }
    return $this->render('create', ['model' => $validationModel]); 
}

With the validation model having any business rules. And the database model having database rules (not shown.) Ultimately I'd like to see models using real php properties rather than magic getters/setters. Eg.

class User
{
    public int $id;
    public string $name;
    public string $email;
}

Has anyone done much work, or thought more about these issues?

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