Including External Files

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

How can i include and use another PHP files on Yii.

For example, i’ll use Facebook PHP SDK .

Normally, we can use it like this


require("facebook.php");


/* Facebook class is declared on facebook.php file */

$facebook = new Facebook(array(

  'appId'  => 'YOUR_APP_ID',

  'secret' => 'YOUR_APP_SECRET',

));


// Get User ID

$user = $facebook->getUser();

Now how can i integrate it to Yii framework ?

Please explain step by step :)

Thanks.

2

There is only one step:


Yii::import('application.vendors.*');

require_once('Zend/Feed.php');

require_once('Zend/Feed/Rss.php');

That assumes that it’s placed in app/protected/vendors.

3

Thank you. What is the difference of vendors and components ?

4

Vendors = 3rd party code, like extensions, but extensions are Yii-oriented. And components dir is for your own classes used in the current application (widgets, menus, etc.).