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There is a lot of confusion surrounding what is happening behind the scenes when you render a view.

This wiki is a work in progress.

If you're working a lot with extensions you often stumble upon problems, when you want to include them into your custom web application, like hardcoded or absolute path aliases or classes extended from core application components, which implement addiditonal features.

usually someone confused to make layouts in yii.

If you use yiic to generate webApplication there will be a layout folder under the protected/views/, and the Controller class under protected/components which will use by default these layouts files.