Helpful extensions for views

This packet contains some helpful code for creating views for the framework YII2.

YFormatter: Extended YII2-Formatter

• New format: ntext1line => Returns the first line only or first part of the first line(useful for text fields in grids)

Examples:
In column definition:
'format' => 'ntext1line', // Shows the first line only
'format' => ['ntext1line', 25] // Shows a maximum of 25 characters of the fisrt line

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist yasheena/yii2-view "*"

or add

"yasheena/yii2-view": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by:

YFormatter: Add the following line to your grid options and you can use the new formats:

'formatter' => new \yasheena\view\YFormatter()