1. General
2. Researching around
3. Solution

General ¶

There came the need to perform two operations, always, on 'application boot' time. Example? My real world example involved some geo-location logic (that's the first operation) and syncing of some session details so KcFinder can be in sync with the user in context - each user with his own session container (the second).

Researching around ¶

So anyone who ever attached a single handler to CWebApplication.onBeginRequest knows its easily done by modifying config/main.php like this (for example):

return array(
    ...
    // that's php 5.4 array notation below...
    'onBeginRequest' => ['SomeClass', 'someStaticMethod'],
    'import => [...],
    'modules' => [...],
    ...
);

That's nice but its not possible at the moment to attach several event handlers at the same time.

Solution ¶

I've followed the suggestions described in this old bug report and altered index.php accordingly, so from this:

require_once($yii);
Yii::createWebApplication($config)->run();

I came to this:

require_once($yii);
$webapp = Yii::createWebApplication($config);
$webapp->onBeginRequest = ['MyClassA', 'staticMethodA'];
$webapp->onBeginRequest = ['MyClassB', 'staticMethodB'];
$webapp->run();

A quick debugging revealed - both methods are being called exactly as presumed. QED.