Adding methods to Yii Models including Named Scopes.

Working with Yii's Active Record implementation, conditions, limits, ordering, selecting certain data.

Using Yii Framework Models For Basic Queries. One of a multi-part tutorial on Yii and MySQL

This part of the multi-part tutorial on Yii and MySQL walks you through setting up your models using Yii's shell command.

Connecting To MySQL using the Yii Framework.