Layout problem

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I have my SiteController like this: -




<?php


	class SiteController extends Controller {

		

		public function actionIndex() {

			

			$this->render("hello");

			

		}

		

		public function actionError() {

			

			echo("Hello Error!");

			

		}

		

	}


?>

And I also have my views layout in "views/site/main.php": -




<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">


	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">


		<head>

		

			<title><?php echo CHtml::encode($this->pageTitle); ?></title>

			<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

			<link href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

			

		</head>

		

		<body>

		

			<div id="menu">

			

				<a href="#">Log in</a>

			

			</div>

			

			<div id="submenu">

			

				<a href="#">Clients</a>

			

			</div>

			

			<div id="content">

			

				<div id="left">

				

					<?php echo $content; ?>

					

				</div>

				

				<div id="right">

				

					<p>Sidebar</p>

				

				</div>

				

			</div>

	

		</body>


	</html>

And only the controller action is showing up but not the layout. Any ideas anyone?

2

to set up the layout path you need to initialize a public variable in the controller class

like




class MyController extends CConttroller{

 	public $layout='site/main';

}

there’s a lot of ways to set its path, you might want to dig into it a little deeper.

for example, if you are using modules, and you want to use a common layout that is located under application.views.layouts set the layout path this way , using double slashes




 	public $layout='//layouts/main';

I’m not sure about which layout path it uses as default, so you might want to check it out on the class your controller extends from

3

Cheers for the reply, it works now :)