CODEWITHSUNDEEP
yii2
sam
sam

Reputation: 968

How to change layouts in yii2

I have a products module in my application which i register at both backend and frontend of my advance application, i want to achieve if a user access the product module from frontend app i want to render a different layout not /myproject/frontend/web/views/layouts/main.php let say i want to render /myproject/frontend/web/views/layouts/productLayout.php. And if an admin officer access the product module from backend app i want to render /myproject/backend/web/views/layouts/main.php. without changing my code it works perfectly in backend app as it uses /myproject/backend/web/views/layouts/main.php but in front end it don't work good as it uses /myproject/frontend/web/views/layouts/main.php instead of /myproject/backend/web/views/layouts/productLayout.php. i tried this in my code in the products module default controller 

public $productLayout = '@frontend/views/layouts/productLayout';
public function actionIndex()
{
    $this->layout = $this->productLayout;
}

and it works perfectly in frontend but when i try to access from backend it doesn't work as it loads the frontend layout file... any help on this will be good thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2618

Answers (2)

TomoMiha
TomoMiha

Reputation: 1279

You can set it for all actions of a controller with this:

public function beforeAction($action)
{  
    $this->layout = 'dashboard'; // or  '@app/views/layouts/dashboard'
    return true;
}

Upvotes: 1

ScaisEdge
ScaisEdge

Reputation: 133400

You can test the application id (and eventually set it with a proper unique name in config/main.php) and the set the layout you need .

public function actionIndex()
{
    if (Yii::$app->name  == 'my_id_for_backend') {
     $this->layout == '@backend/views/layouts/main';
    } else {
      $this->layout ='@frontend/views/layouts/productLayout';
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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