How to change form code

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

What’s the best way to change the way a form is generated by Gii? I want to change some of the classes and the way the error messages are displayed.

Thanks

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The css for the form are in css/form.css, you should accomplish to change as you wish just by editing this file.

All code that is in views/controllerId/_form can be customized, you should consider it like an example, not like an untouchable standard.

All widgets (or CHtml::something) can be customized with the property that are specified in the doc (see the CHtml or the widget you are using).

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Thanks for your response zaccaria. I wanted to change the markup actually, not just the css, should have made that clear. I realise I can edit the _form file but then I’d have to do that each time I generated a form and that would take away a little bit from the whole point of having the code generated so I was wondering if there was a way to customise the code that is generated without messing with the framework’s code itself.

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Read the section "Customizing code templates". You may want to customize framework/gii/crud/templates/default/_form.php (and of course store it in a place specified by generatorPaths in your application config).

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.gii

/Tommy

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Perfect! Thanks tri.