Equivalent Of App_Controller, App_Model On Yii

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Learning the ropes of Yii.

On cakephp, they have this app_controller, app_model files before they load other controllers. I was wondering, if there is an equivalent on Yii.

On cake, they have this beforeFilter() as well that we can add up on app_controller, to set logic settings before anything else. I found out that Yii has beforeAction().

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CController#beforeAction-detail

My understanding is it will be placed on each controller, is there a way to add it like a global method so, I won’t be adding it on all controller?

Thanks. Sorry, starting newbie on Yii.

2

Welcome to the forum

Add beforeAction method to "base" controller (e.g. protected/components/Controller.php) from which all other Controllers should inherit from.

3

Thanks. Worked perfectly.

I just like to note that you still need to do on every controller.


public function beforeAction() {

	parent::beforeAction();

}

If you want to inherit some settings from the parent controller.

4

You can also take a look at CApplication::onBeginRequest.

5

I actually had an issue when I implemented this.

The methods on the site controllers are not being read.

Basically…

components/Controller.php


public function beforeAction() {

	echo "Component, Controller";

}

controller/SiteController.php


public function beforeAction() {

	parent::beforeAction();

}

Like on the SiteController, actionIndex()

It won’t be read anymore. Did I missed something?

Thanks

6

Got it, the parent should return true.


protected function beforeAction($action) 

{ 

    return true; 

}

See: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CController#beforeAction-detail