[saegeek]

It would be nice to allow to enable autoloading of CSS and JS files from the controller.
example:

Class myController extends Controller {
    public $cssFiles = array('*','/css/');
    public $jsFiles = array('*','/js/');

    public function actionIndex() {
    // And of course, to override we will use :
    $this->cssFiles = array('style.css,main.css','/css/'));
    $this->jsFiles = array('jquery.js','/js/'));
    ...
}

Also "ClientScript::" syntax should be enabled instead of Yii::app()->getClientScript()->...

[twisted1919]

 public $cssFiles = array('*'//from where will you load this ???, '/css/');
 public $jsFiles = array('*'//same ,'/js/');

The idea itself is bad, clientscript is good as it is right now, i don't see why complicate things.
If you want, you can always create a helper around CClientScript for these kind of things

Also "ClientScript::" syntax should be enabled instead of Yii::app()->getClientScript()->... 

Why make the class methods static ?

Again, you can have your own ClientScript class helper with static methods if you'd like:

class ClientScript{
   [...]
   public static function registerScriptFile()
   {
      return call_user_func_array(Yii::app()->clientScript,__FUNCTION__,func_get_args());
   }

   public static function registerScript()
   {
      return call_user_func_array(Yii::app()->clientScript,__FUNCTION__,func_get_args());
   }
   [...]

}

And call

ClientScript::registerScriptFile('http://');
ClientScript::registerScript('my-script','alert(1);');

[saegeek]

twisted1919, on 07 May 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

 public $cssFiles = array('*'//from where will you load this ???, '/css/');
 public $jsFiles = array('*'//same ,'/js/');

The idea itself is bad, clientscript is good as it is right now, i don't see why complicate things.
If you want, you can always create a helper around CClientScript for these kind of things

Also "ClientScript::" syntax should be enabled instead of Yii::app()->getClientScript()->... 

Why make the class methods static ?

Again, you can have your own ClientScript class helper with static methods if you'd like:

class ClientScript{
   [...]
   public static function registerScriptFile()
   {
      return call_user_func_array(Yii::app()->clientScript,__FUNCTION__,func_get_args());
   }

   public static function registerScript()
   {
      return call_user_func_array(Yii::app()->clientScript,__FUNCTION__,func_get_args());
   }
   [...]

}

And call

ClientScript::registerScriptFile('http://');
ClientScript::registerScript('my-script','alert(1);');

The goal of a framework is to minimalize as much as possible the develloper work so why CClientScript could not be static ?
And why JS and CSS could not be autoloaded ?
The syntax could be :

public $cssFiles = array('*','application.css'); // this means /protected/css/

[samdark]

saegeek
Making it static will kill an ability to extend it. If you want a shorthand, you can just add the following to your index.php:

/**
 * @return CClientScript
 */
function cs() {
  return Yii::app()->clientScript;
}

As for autoloading, see script packages feature that's in 1.1 already.

[twisted1919]

public $cssFiles = array('*','application.css'); // this means /protected/css/

What if i use themes ? What if my assets are (as they should be) outside of the protected folder ?

You have CAssetManager::publish() to publish files just as you need, then use the generated url to reference the files. It's too easy as it is right now.

The goal of a framework is to minimalize as much as possible the develloper work so why CClientScript could not be static ?

Let's not fool our self here, i know that we're lazy and probably we would want :

Yii::createWebApplication('Yii, make me a shop website, that rocks the world')->run();

But some not anybody have same needs, that's why the framework needs to have a certain level of abstraction.

[saegeek]

twisted1919, on 08 May 2012 - 06:36 AM, said:

Yii::createWebApplication('Yii, make me a shop website, that rocks the world')->run();

Why not ?

[twisted1919]

I made your day, didn't i ?