howto? setup front-end with users login and back-end with admin login?

ritz66 · May 1, 2009, 8:57pm

Hi Everyone,

I am new here, aswell in Oop.

Tried the blog tutorial and works pretty fine.

I would like to use yii as a framework for my future webapps.

Figuring out mvc principal which is new for me.

Can somebody point me in the right direction? This is what i want to achieve;

A front-end website where users can register.

With several user-levels.

Based on their user-level they can access diffrent data from the database.

Then a admin section

www.website.com/admin

at this place te administrator or moderator (user levels again) can alter data in the diffrent tables.

Both (back-end & front-end) has diffrent lay-out skins.

I am also confused about the several authentication systems in yii.

Which one shall i use?

For the front-end for example, users can register but they need to be activated after for example buying a subscription and based on their subscription they will have a certain authentication level or after admin approval.

other question?

this forum (smf) is it intregratable in yii? ( using the same login credentials?)

thx in advance.

qiang · May 1, 2009, 9:31pm

The following directory layout is one possible option:



index.php


admin.php


protected/


	config/


		main.php


		admin.php


	components/


	controllers/


		admin/


	models/


	views/


		admin/

index.php is used as the entry script for your front-end, while admin.php is for back-end.

protected/ is the application directory for both front-end and back-end.

For the back-end, you need to configure admin.php so that:

protected/controllers/admin is the base controller path for back-end

protected/views/admin is the base view path for back-end

For simple authorization, using access rules is sufficient. RBAC may be considered if you plan to do very sophisticated auth control (which I don't think is the case for your system.)

Yes, you can integrate forum accounts with your system. The integration occurs in UserIdentity where you should authenticate against the forum database.

ritz66 · May 2, 2009, 8:03pm

thx qiang.

I opened my commandline and typed

www/yii/framework/yiic webapp www/skeleton


Create a Web application under '/var/www/skeleton'? [Yes|No] y

And voila, the whole structure is there… The basic structure.

Now i am gonna make some tweaks.(wish me luck)

Adding the admin section for my back-end.

In dreamweaver I'd setup a site called skeleton.

When adding the I mentioned that i didnt have access to the images folder.

so for now i chmod my skeleton folder to 777 to have access there…

chmod 777 -R www/skeleton

Now in dreamweaver i can access the files.

According to Qiang's tip for a folder structure I added some files and folders.

Which looks like this:

index.php

admin.php

protected/

config/


	main.php


	admin.php


components/


controllers/


	admin/


models/


views/


	admin/

I opened the index.php file and saved the file as admin.php, then i did some editing.

$config=dirname(__FILE__).'/protected/config/admin.php';

as you can see I pointed to the proper config file called admin.php and saved the file again.

Then I opened admin.php (which is a copy from main.php) in the protected/config folder.

Here i go…

return array(


	'basePath'=>dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..',


	'name'=>'WEBADMIN',

I figured that i must change the basepath to point to my admin view section?

Under 'name' i made it WEBADMIN

But I dont know what to put as a basePath

Here I got stuck.

I moved on to finish the directory structure.

I created a admin folder in the controllers folder and copied the SiteController.php to that folder.

After opening this file I mentioned that this can stay this way for the moment.

All I see here are some basic actions.

Then I moved to the view section.

There i created again a admin folder and copied the folders /layouts and /site with the containing files to the admin folder.

the structure look like this

index.php

admin.php

protected/

config/


	main.php


	admin.php


components/


controllers/

SiteController.php

	&nbsp; &nbsp;  admin/

SiteController.php

models/


views/


	admin/

layouts/

main.php

site/

contact.php

index.php

login.php

layouts/

main.php

site/

contact.php

index.php

login.php

system/

Question 1. The basePath in admin.php in the config folder needs to be admin.

What is the proper code to puth there?

Question 2. Does the view/admin folder need his own folder structure?

site/ and layout/ i think so because we want to create a totally diffrent layout here

ritz66 · May 2, 2009, 8:07pm

Now when i hit localhost/skeleton/admin.php i see the default page with WEBADMIN in the title/logo section, but when i make some changes to view/admin/layouts/main.php i see that nothing changes.

system · May 4, 2009, 11:25pm

you did wrong.

it has to be like for e.g.:

./config:

console.php

guest.php

member.php

./controllers:

guest/

member/

./controllers/guest:

MenuController.php

PageController.php

./controllers/member:

MemberController.php

ProfileController.php

./views:

guest/

layouts/

member/

system/

./views/guest:

menu/

page/

./views/guest/menu:

_form.php

admin.php

create.php

list.php

show.php

update.php

./views/guest/page:

show.php

./views/layouts:

guest.php

member.php

./views/member:

member/

./views/member/member:

login.php

register.php

in config files:

set different layouts

and in the main directory in the index.php and member.php

set different config files

$config=dirname(FILE).'/protected/config/member.php';

foe_1 · May 15, 2009, 7:37am

Cookbook has config/main.php under back-end. Here they are in the config folder as backend.php. This one logically is better - Which one to follow

qiang · May 15, 2009, 4:01pm

The cookbook tutorial stores configurations for front-end and back-end in different directories because each end may have several child configuration files (e.g. URL rules, parameters).