Configure application for front-end and back-end

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
21

I don’t think that is the default functionality though is it?

This is confusing the sh*t out of me now! Everything is a mess! :(

22

Well, if you are using UserIdentity class and have in the config such strings:




'components'=>array(

    'user'=>array(

        'loginUrl'=>array('site/login'),

        // enable cookie-based authentication

        'allowAutoLogin'=>true,

    ),

),

and also your backend’s SiteController has accessControl filter and rules:




public function filters()

{

    return array(

        'accessControl',

    );

}


public function accessRules()

{

    return array(

        array('allow',

            'users'=>array('*'),

            'actions'=>array('login'),

        ),

        array('allow',

            'users'=>array('@'),

        ),

        array('deny',

            'users'=>array('*'),

        ),

    );

}

then, when you are not logged in and try to access SiteController/actionIndex, you’ll be redirected to the SiteController/actionLogin, which has the following code:




public function actionLogin()

{

    $form=new LoginForm;

    // collect user input data

    if(isset($_POST['LoginForm']))

    {

        $form->attributes=$_POST['LoginForm'];

        $form->rememberMe=false;

        // validate user input and redirect to previous page if valid

        if($form->validate())

            $this->redirect(Yii::app()->user->returnUrl);

    }

    // display the login form

    $this->render('login',array('form'=>$form));

}

It is described in the guide: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/topics.auth

23

Cheers andy.

Now the yiic shell does not seem to work with the admin section. I typed the following:

php protected/yiic shell backend.php

Nothing happens, just a blank line.

The front-end yiic shell works OK.

Any idea what it could be?

24

The problem seems to being caused by these 3 lines in the backend config file:

‘controllerPath’ => $backend.’/controllers’,

‘viewPath’ => $backend.’/views’,

‘runtimePath’ => $backend.’/runtime’,

If I comment these lines out the yiic shell works OK, but it is for the frontend! Any idea how to fix this?

25

Any idea andy_s?

26

I think there can be two reasons: you set accessRules so yiic can’t access your backend application, or you need to edit config/console.php. Didn’t try it actually. Maybe just do crud for the front-end and then copy generated code to the backend part? :)