CController.layout doesn't know about the theme setting?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I moved all of my layout information in to a theme folder and I can’t seem to get the generated Controller to point at themes/default/layout/column1 as a layout.

I looked over http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/basics.namespace and I was hoping to find a preset alias for theme.

Any ideas? I’d rather not have to modify the controller every time I change the theme in the config.

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this is the property I am talking about. Is it possible to point this at the current theme?


public $layout='application.views.layouts.column1';
3

Simply write


public $layout='column1';
4

That was the first thing I tried, but it still doesn’t seem to find the theme’s column1 layout. ???

here is the directory structure:

themes > default > views > layouts > column1.php

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after taking a closer look, it is finding the column1 layout, but not the main layout.

in column1 there is a call to beginContent that passes ‘application.views.layouts.main’, changing this to ‘main’ doesn’t help.

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somewhat hacky solution is to:


<?php $this->beginContent('webroot.themes.default.views.layouts.main'); ?>
7

there is a fix in SVN for working with themes and layouts

take a look at there so you won’t need to hack to get the job done…I think Qiang will release it in 1.1.3

hope it helps!!

:)

regards!!

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Unfortunately it’s not present in version 1.1.3, right?