Config\main.php Is Called Every Time A Menu Item Is Selected

Yii 1.1 Installation and Setup
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Hi

I’m having a problem that my Yii::app->params variables are being reset every time I select an item in the top menu.

So to investigate this, I installed the yii demo application in testdrive

checking in xdebug using Netbeans, it calls index.php which calls the Yii create application every time is select a different item on the menu.

so config\main.php is called each time.

Yii::app->params are reset each time also.

Is this normal?

Is there something in my Apache settings?

I’m running a default Wamp installation.

Just a hint to tell me where to look would be enough for me.

Thanks,

Neil

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I guess that you are new to web development. And as I understand selection of the new item in the menu loads a new page, right?

It is normal that your application starts from scratch - this is because of stateless nature of web application - each request to the server spawns new application instance.

If you came from the desktop apps area (as I did) then this can be confusing at the beginning: every action performed by your user usually results in a request to the server, every server request starts and initializes application each time.

To keep some state you can use database (for permanent data) or session (for temporary data).

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Thanks Seb for this. This is very helpful.

I will use session now to keep data because Yii::app()->params variables are being cleared everytime Yiiroot\index.php is called.

Neil