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Yii Google Chart Extension

Here’s YiiWheel’s google chart wrapper extension: https://github.com/2amigos/yiiwheels/blob/master/widgets/google/WhVisualizationChart.php

I downloaded just the WhVisualizationChart file and put this in my view:

$this->widget('ext.WhVisualizationChart', array(
    'visualization' => 'PieChart',
    'data' => $chartDataProvider,
    'options' => array(
        'pieHole'=> '0.5',
        'backgroundColor'=>array('fill'=>'transparent'),
    ),
    'htmlOptions'=>array('style'=>'width:100%; height:375px'),
));

and this in my controller:

public function actionIndex()
{
    $chartDataProvider = array(
        array('Task', 'Hours per Day'),
        array('Work', 11),
        array('Eat', 2),
        array('Commute', 2),
        array('Watch TV', 2),
        array('Sleep', 7)
    );
    $this->render('index', array('chartDataProvider'=>$chartDataProvider));
}

Examples on how to use it are at the bottom of this page: http://yiiwheels.2amigos.us/site/charts#visualizationchart

Enabling SSL On Apache

This is a quick overview of the process of adding an SSL certificate to apache (for next time…):

  1. Generate your private key and CSR with:

    openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr
  2. Request your certificate
  3. Save requested certificate onto server in a .crt file
  4. Download the intermediary/root cert from http://www.symantec.com/page.jsp?id=roots
  5. Make your site file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ look like this:
<VirtualHost *:443>

    SSLEngine On
    SSLCertificateFile /home/youruser/yourdomain.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /home/youruser/yourdomain.key
    SSLCACertificateFile /var/www/verisign.crt

    ServerName www.yourdomain.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/yourdomain

An explanation of each of those certificates:

  • SSLCertificateFile - This is the certificate you received after your request.
  • SSLCertificateKeyFile - This is the private key you generated in step 1.
  • SSLCACertificateFile - This is the intermediary cert you downloaded from verisign.

Yii quickdlgs Without UrlManager Enabled 

EQuickDlgs::iframeButton(
  array(
    'controllerRoute' => 'controller/create',
    'dialogTitle' => 'Create New Record',
    'dialogWidth' => 800,
    'dialogHeight' => 600,
    'openButtonText' => 'Add Record',
    'closeButtonText' => 'Close',
    //'openButtonHtmlOptions' => array(...),
  )
);

With the code above, I was getting the following error:

The system is unable to find the requested action “create?qdsClass=EFrameJuiDlg”.

I had to change line 79 in EFrameJuiDlg.php inside the quickdlgs extension from:

$url .= '?' . http_build_query($this->urlParams);

to:

$url .= '&' . http_build_query($this->urlParams);