Hello (my first post),
I am experimenting with Yii for the first time, and being completely honest, have not been developing for the last several years. I am now a project manager, but I pride myself in engaging with technology and and methodologies so I can better prepare documentation for the development team and speak to them intelligently.
I am running on Windows 7 Professional, Xampp 1.7.3 (Apache 2.2.14; PHP 5.3.1; MySQL 5.1.41) and installed the most recent stable release of Yii. I have moved the "framework" directory to the same level as htdocs. The basic installation has gone off without a hitch.
For my first project, I completed the Blog Tutoial. With the exception of a few typos, it too went off without a hitch.
I am now attempting to follow the Cookbook "Creating a data-driven Hierarchical structure…", but want to make menu and Admin function for add/edit/delete menu items, and make the menu Standard on ALL pages of the application.
Admittedly, I am having a bit of a struggle doing this. My instincts tell me to override the component/Controller.php to get the Menu Items and set the $menu array to be passed to the layout.
Any advice and detailed examples? Would be greatly appreciated!!!
I am greatly encouraged by the number of members in the community and the growing entries in documentation. At the same time, I believe documentation is very lacking. More examples of "real-world" usage are required, and could capture the attention of young developers just being exposed to frameworks and real world development.
Thank you in advanced!!!!
Almost forgot, where can I download the newest version of the CDropDownMenu Widget so it will be in a way i can extract in my environment.
