[Edgar Kuskov]

Hellow every1,

i am a bit confused about the preload 'import' parameters in 'main.php' config file. I have just change the import to:

// autoloading model and component classes
	'import'=>array(
		'application.models.*',
		'application.modules.*',
		'application.components.*',
		'application.extensions.*',
	),

Now i have created a new folder in extension 'validators' and created a 'uniqueValidator.php' inside of validators. In the model i am adding the validator like:

array('year', 'CompositeUniqueKeyValidator', 'keyColumns' => 'year, user_id'),

and yii cant find this validator.

Now i set the alias path:
Yii::setPathOfAlias('validators', dirname(__FILE__).'/../extensions/validators');

and now i can use the model like that:
array('year', 'validators.CompositeUniqueKeyValidator', 'keyColumns' => 'year, user_id'),

What is then preloder? And why it doesnt load all the files from extensions?

Regards,

Edgar

[redguy]

it does. but only from "extensions" directory, not subdirectories. If you want to automatically load classes from "validators" subdirectory you must add:

        'import'=>array(
                'application.models.*',
                'application.modules.*',
                'application.components.*',
                'application.extensions.*',
                'application.extensions.validators.*',
        ),

otherwise you could just type:

                'application.*',

and everything would be loaded automatically...

[Edgar Kuskov]

redguy, on 30 January 2013 - 08:05 AM, said:

it does. but only from "extensions" directory, not subdirectories. If you want to automatically load classes from "validators" subdirectory you must add:

        'import'=>array(
                'application.models.*',
                'application.modules.*',
                'application.components.*',
                'application.extensions.*',
                'application.extensions.validators.*',
        ),

otherwise you could just type:

                'application.*',

and everything would be loaded automatically...

Ok so in Yii case the " * " symbol doesnt mean that the files will be loaded recursive. But why then "application.*" loads all the files?

[redguy]

Edgar Kuskov, on 31 January 2013 - 04:59 AM, said:

But why then "application.*" loads all the files?

it does not. I just pointed that IF it worked then you would not have to specify any other paths like application.model.*, application.extensions.*, etc.

"*" in any case means only "all files from this directory" without recursion.