Autoload And Paths

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

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

2

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…

3

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

4

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.