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You're reading from Agile Web Application Development with Yii1.1 and PHP5 For PHP developers who know object-oriented programming, this book is the fast track to learning the Yii framework. It takes a step-by-step approach to building a complete real-world application ‚Äì teaching by practice rather than theory.

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2010

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781847199584

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Yii

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 and PHP5

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Preface

1. Meet Yii FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started

3. The TrackStar Application

4. Iteration 1: Creating the Initial TrackStar Application

5. Iteration 2: Project CRUD

6. Iteration 3: Adding Tasks

7. Iteration 4: User Management and Authentication

8. Iteration 5: User Access Control

9. Iteration 6: Adding User Comments

10. Iteration 7: Adding an RSS Web Feed

11. Iteration 8: Making it Pretty - Design, Layout, Themes, and Internationalization(i18n)

12. Iteration 9: Modules - Adding Administration

13. Iteration 10: Production Readiness

Index

Creating themes

Themes provide a systematic way of customizing the design layout of a web application. One of the many benefits of an MVC architecture is the separation of the presentation tier from both the rest of the back-end stuff. Themes make great use of this separation by allowing you to easily and dramatically change the overall look and feel of a web application during runtime. Yii allows for an extremely easy application of themes to provide great flexibility in your web application design.

Building themes in Yii

In Yii, each theme is represented as a folder consisting of view files, layout files, and relevant resource files such as images, CSS files, JavaScript files, and so on. The name of a theme is the same as its folder name. By default, all themes reside under the same folder WebRoot/themes. Of course, as is the case with all other application settings, this default folder can be configured to be a different one. To do so, simply alter the basePath and the baseUrl properties...