Gii Templates

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Howdy,

is it possible to change templates of the code generated by Gii?

Example,


public function actionView($id)

{

    $this->render('view',array(

        'model'=>$this->loadModel($id),

    ));

}

  1. I’d like to replace tabs with spaces

  2. and spaces before/after => in ‘model’=>$this->loadModel($id)

Are Gii templates editable?

2

of course you can, even yii framework itself…

am i kidding? yes.

i would suggest, create your own template so you don’t mess up the default one

copy file from

default@ yii\framework\gii\generators\controller\templates\default

to

mytemp@ yii\framework\gii\generators\controller\templates\mytemp

and modify them accordingly

in gii form when you create controller, specify which template you want to use, in this case: mytemp

this way, you have your own templates at the same time keep the original ones.

i always hesitate to mess around with original code.

3

Thanks @rootbear. I suppose I’m blind. Thanks.

4

Hi everybody,

thanks to @rootbear I have overridden Gii Templates creating another copy. Due to my layout I would like to be able to add some classes to auto-generated Form labels and field but I’m stucked.

Gii use this code to generate labels and fields:


 <?php echo "<?php echo ".$this->generateActiveLabel($this->modelClass,$column,)."; ?>\n"; ?>

the code looks very familiar and I simply thought that it could work like Chtml::label()


$form->label($model,'type',array('class'=>'control-label col-lg-3'));

so I tried adding an array of htmlOptions like this


<?php echo "<?php echo ".$this->generateActiveLabel($this->modelClass,$column,array('class'=>'control-label col-lg-3'))."; ?>\n"; ?>

but unluckly it got no effects, simply seems to be ignored. I try to have a look but I can’t find any documentation on generateActiveLabel(). Does anyone have advice on this?

Thanks in advance

5

Ok, if someone need this,

I found out that "generateActiveLabel()" is declared in CrudCode.php under


/framework/gii/generators/crud/

I edited that function in this way


public function generateActiveLabel($modelClass,$column,$htmlOptions = null)

	{

		return "\$form->labelEx(\$model,'{$column->name}',array('class'=>'".$htmlOptions."'))";

	}

So I can pass some css class to the tempalte generator. The same can be done to "generateActiveField()" function, that generate the input for the form.

Hope this can help someone.

6

really nice work you done toe_ne

7

I wrote even more better:

in CrudCode.php file




public function generateActiveLabel($modelClass,$column,$htmlOptions = null)

	{

		$hp = '';

		if ( is_array($htmlOptions) && count($htmlOptions) )

		{

			$hp = 'array (';

			foreach ($htmlOptions as $name=>$value){

				$i++;

				

				$hp .= "'{$name}'=>'{$value}'";

				

				if ($i<count($htmlOptions))

				$hp .= ', ';

				

			}

			$hp .= ')';

		}

		return "\$form->labelEx(\$model,'{$column->name}', {$hp})";

	}

in _form.php file:




<?php echo "<?php echo ".$this->generateActiveLabel($this->modelClass,$column, array('class'=>'control-label'))."; ?>\n"; ?>