How to use Module

[iprathik (Prathik)]

I was going through the guide and stuck up at one place

A module can also be congured with initial property values. The usage is very similar to conguring application components. For example, the forum module may have a property named postPerPage in its module class which can be congured in the application conguration as follows:

return array(

......

'modules'=>array(

'forum'=>array(

'postPerPage'=>20,

),

),

......

);

The module instance may be accessed via the module property of the currently active controller. Through the module instance, we can then access information that are shared a the module level. For example, in order to access the above postPerPage information, we can use the following expression:

$postPerPage=Yii::app()->controller->module->postPerPage;

// or the following if $this refers to the controller instance

// $postPerPage=$this->module->postPerPage;

In the above line controller->module->postPerPage do we have to replace controller with controllerID and module with moduleID

[jacmoe (Jacob Moena)]

Nope.

That’s literally what you need to write:

Yii::app()->controller->module->property_you_want.

That will work if you’re in that module.

If you’re not in a module Yii::app()->controller->module will be null.

[vzangloo]

Hi Jacmoe,

Can you explain more about accessing a module’s property in a site level default controller?

Beside using Yii::app()->getModule("MODULE_NAME")->MODULE_PROPERTY;

Is there anyway we can use something like the following?

Yii::app()->MODULE_NAME->MODULE_PROPERTY;

Thanks

[jacmoe (Jacob Moena)]

Yii::app()->controller->module refers to the current module, so you can use that instead of [color="#1C2837"][size="2"]Yii::app()->getModule("MODULE_NAME").[/size][/color]

[color="#1C2837"][size=“2”]It’s just a short-hand function. [/size][/color]

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[size=“2”][color="#1c2837"]You can’t expect to be able to access other modules using that function, of course since it refers to the active module.[/color][/size]

[size=“2”][color="#1c2837"]If you need to access other modules, or if you are not ‘in’ a module, then you need to use the getModule function.[/color][/size]

[vzangloo]

Hi Jacmoe,

Thanks for your reply, i am well understood.

Yii::app()->controller->module refers to the current module, so you can use that instead of [color="#1C2837"][size="2"]Yii::app()->getModule("MODULE_NAME").[/size][/color]

[color="#1C2837"][size=“2”]It’s just a short-hand function. [/size][/color]

[color="#1C2837"] [/color]

[size=“2”][color="#1c2837"]You can’t expect to be able to access other modules using that function, of course since it refers to the active module.[/color][/size]

[size=“2”][color="#1c2837"]If you need to access other modules, or if you are not ‘in’ a module, then you need to use the getModule function.[/color][/size]

[don.vijay05 (don.vijay05@gmail.com)]

Hye friends… Now only am creating the module from gii. how can i access the module. I cant open it. The module files are placed in the module folder but i can’t open it in the browser. please help me out how can i access it and work… and paste the address for accessing the module.