best practice with css and theming

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

hi!

I’m working on a Yii Website, which sould work out of the box without any installed Theme as default, but it should be possible to add new Themes later.

So my question is what is the best way to use css files.

i have see one solution for css file is to use a accessible css folder like this:

a ) without themes




WebRoot/

    assets

    protected

    css

latter adding this code to layout or view file:


 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/mycss.css" />

b ) with themes

when i try to adopt the folder structure from this article i have a structure like this:




WebRoot/

    assets

    protected

    css

    themes/

        basic/

            views

            css

        fancy/

            views

            css

latter adding this code to layout or view file of a theme:


 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->getTheme()->getBaseUrl(); ?>/css/mycss.css" />

have i understand it correct? or is there any better way to handle this?

2

Yes, you are doing alright with the second way. I suggest going with themes from the start.

First create the default (basic) theme, where you have your initial css files.