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Zitty Yam
Zitty Yam

Reputation: 135

Yii : How to change default path of render function?

In Yii when you using render in a widget or controller, you only need to give the file name (without .php) as a parameter, like this :

$this->render('forum', array('data'=>$data));

For example when I using this function in Class extends CWidget, Yii will try to find forum.php inside /protected/components/views

How can I change this default path to some other where ? for all my widget class (all class extends CWidget) ? and what if I only want to change the path for some of my widget ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2392

Answers (2)

chris---
chris---

Reputation: 1546

You can simply do a $this->render('//path/forum', array('data'=>$data));, where the // points to the main view directory, usually protected/views.

You can also use an aliased path with dot notation:

$this->render('application.myviews.test'); // would render protected/myviews/test.php
$this->render('webroot.test'); // would render htdocs/test.php

Upvotes: 1

Let me see
Let me see

Reputation: 5094

You need to override the getViewPath method of the CWidget class

eg:-

class CMyWidget extends CWidget{

// Returns the directory containing the view files for this widget.

public function getViewPath($checkTheme=false){

// this method does the task of finding the view files containing directory.
// so override it

}

// This method will look for the view under the widget's  getViewPath viewPath.
public function getViewFile($viewName)
    {
// override it
}

    }

And finally when creating widgets you will have to extend the CMyWidget class instead of CWidget

Upvotes: 1

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