can't install yii-user

matteosistisette · June 11, 2012, 8:52pm

Hi,

I’m new to yii and I guess I’m missing something very, very basic here, but I’m just following the step-by-step instructions at https://github.com/mishamx/yii-user/blob/master/README.md to install yii-user.

When it comes to:

I get the error:

What am I missing? I don’t even know what a migration is…

matteosistisette · June 11, 2012, 9:06pm

I’ve solved it by manually creating a directory “migrations” under modules/user.

However, I’m confused:

if that directory is needed, why isn’t it included in the package?
why can’t the tool create it?
if it’s a file permission issue, then why doesn’t the installation guide mention the file permission requirements? (i.e. make sure this or that directory is writable? it just says “unpack the zip file into…”)

matteosistisette · June 11, 2012, 9:39pm

Now I have a strange error at runtime:

YiiBase::include(WebUser.php) [<a href=‘function.YiiBase-include’>function.YiiBase-include</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory

This seems to be caused by this line in the config/main.php:


'user'=>array(

            // enable cookie-based authentication

            'class' => 'WebUser',

            //...

)

But I inserted that because the installation instructions said to. I’m confused…

markvr · June 17, 2012, 1:24pm

I have exactly the same problem as the OP. For such an apparently popular extension it’s odd that there’s zero documentation. Even if that command had worked, I still have no idea how to use it

matteosistisette · June 17, 2012, 1:51pm

I found out the cause of the runtime error.

The installation instructions assume that you have a WebUser class that extends CWebUser.

However, yiic doesn’t create it by default, so you have to create it if you haven’t already. The instructions should mention this requirement, as a freshly created application won’t fulfill it, so it shouldn’t be assumed.

Anyway, I’ve already given up Yii-user completely. With zero documentation, having to figure out everything by looking at the source code, it’s more pain than creating one’s own user management from scratch.

markvr · June 17, 2012, 2:04pm

I agree. I kinda got round the migration command by guessing, then found the *.sql schemas, had to edit them because they assumed a table prefix of tbl_ which I don’t use, and installed them, then got round a missing module error by unzipping the archive into protected/modules as well as protected/ but the final step was an error about a misnamed column in the database schema -> lastvisit should be called lastvisit_at.

It would be easier to just write it myself. It’s a shame, I’m new to Yii and I love it because it comes with so much stuff out-of-the-box. A decent working, easy to install user management tool would awesome, I’m kinda surprised it isn’t baked into the framework like Gii is.

Hint to yii devs