Beginners question to themes

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello everyone,

Can you please explain me the reason why is there a "views" subfolder in the themes?

Can I override it?

I would prefer if I can cut down that one folder level in the theme, so my layout file would be directly in:

/themes/default/main.php

I know that I can override settings for each view separately, but writing the path to the view feels kinda like a hack.

Thank you for your help!

2

my understanding:

the /themes/<theme-name>/views IS actual the override of the folder /protected/views,

to use it simply add in /protected/config/main.php:


'theme'=>'<theme-name',

then you do whatever changes in /themes/<theme-name>/views whenever you would do it in /protected/views without specifying the theme.

and i don’t see anywhere you need to hard code theme view folder, yii takes care of it for you. as always

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Thanks for the reply, but it’s not clear still.

Why there is one more folder level in the theme folder? How can I remove it?

This is how YII does it by default:

/themes/default/views/main.php

I want to have it this way:

/themes/default/main.php

Thanks!

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ok, assume your theme’s name is theme-name and do this:

drop a file test.php in 1) /themes/ 2) /themes/theme-name/ 3) /themes/theme-name/views/


<?php echo 'hello world';?>

and try to access via


1) http://webroot/themes/test.php

2) http://webroot/themes/theme-name/test.php

3) http://webroot/themes/theme-name/views/test.php

you are not supposed to see 3), reason: it should be protected not public. at the sametime you can have your public folders under /themes/theme-name/ like


themes/theme-name/js <-- public

themes/theme-name/css <-- public

themes/theme-name/images <-- public

themes/theme-name/views <-- protected by .htaccess

.htaccess




deny from all