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Gunah Gaar
Gunah Gaar

Reputation: 535

Yii global variables and setting issue

I am developing a social networking website using Yii. While frequently using the following things I am having great data manageability issue. - User ID - Current user ID (the user which profile is the owner viewing) - Is owner???

where can I define these things. I would something like

if(Yii::app()->owner==ME){
//do something
}
// and similarly
if($this->isMyFreind(<Current user ID>){
}
// $this(CanIView()){

}

I want these functions to be public for any page? But how? In other words Where can I put my library which contains my own favorite functions like text shortening, image cropping, date time format etc etc??

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4216

Answers (3)

Arfeen
Arfeen

Reputation: 2623

In Yii, you can do achieve this by making a class (under protected/compoents) which inherits

CApplicationComponent

class. And then you call any property of this class globally as a component.

class GlobalDef extends CApplicationComponent {
 public $aglobalvar;
}

Define this class in main config under components as:

'globaldef' => array('class' => 'application.components.GlobalDef '),

And you can call like this:

echo Yii::app()->globaldef->aglobalvar;

Hope that can help.

Upvotes: 3

Ivo Renkema
Ivo Renkema

Reputation: 2198

According to the MVC model, things like image cropping or date time formats would go in models. You would simply create models for that.

Upvotes: 1

Brett Gregson
Brett Gregson

Reputation: 5913

I usually use a globals.php file with all my common functions In the index.php (yip the one in the root):

$globals='protected/globals.php';
require_once($globals);

I can then call my global functions anywhere. For example, I shorten certain Yii functions like:

function bu($url=null){
    static $baseUrl;
    if ($baseUrl===null)
        $baseUrl=Yii::app()->request->baseUrl;
    return $url===null ? $baseUrl : $baseUrl.'/'.ltrim($url,'/');
}

So I can then call the Yii::app()->request->baseUrl by simply calling bu()

Upvotes: 0

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