Autoloading file and it's class from certain location

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1

I am doing this in a controller:

$menus = new submenus;

and it shows and error that it cannot load the file. How can i set the directory this certain file loads from?

Thanks.

2

Import (include) the class file before you use it, or put the class file in a directory that is in the include path. In Yii, you can do the above in one of the following ways:



<?php


// explicitly import the class


// this should be done at the beginning of the file 


// that references the class


Yii::import('application.path.to.submenus');





// import the whole directory of protected/components


// anything under the directory will be autoloaded when needed


// NOTE: this is already done in the app config generated by "yiic webapp"


Yii::import('application.components.*');
3

I have something tricky in that case i am trying to load a file named  menus.php and it is located under the directory: controllers/<controllerdirectory>/menus/menus.php

so for each controller there is a different file loaded with the same name but in a different directory. so i made a function in my base controller that looks like this:

public function LoadControllerMenus()


	{


		if(Yii::app()->controller->thisApplication)


		{


			$app = Yii::app()->controller->thisApplication;


			if(file_exists(Yii::app()->getControllerPath() . '/' . $app . '/menus/menus.php'))


			{


				require_once(Yii::app()->getControllerPath() . '/' . $app . '/menus/menus.php');


				//$menus = new SubMenus;


			}


		}


	}

if you notice it loads the menus.php file of the current active controller. how would i go on doing that so it will load the correct file based on the current loaded controller $app consists of the directory name of the current active controller

Thanks.

4

Because your file is not named after the class name, you won't be able to benefit from autoload. You can still use Yii::import though:



Yii::import('application.controllers.' . $this->id . '.menus.menus', true);

where $this refers to the current controller instance, and the 'true' parameter forces import to include the file (since it is not named after the class name).

5

Ahh thanks, will try this tomorrow.