Re-published assets from a Module.

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I am using the yii-dashboard module that comes with its own .css etc.

This comes with a AdminBootstrap class to change the assets path for the Admin Module’s Bootstrap component. This is needed because if the front-end uses Bootstrap too, it will override this module’s style. The class forces it to load a separate asset folder, thereby separating the styles between front/backend.

If I change settings in the css, what is the best way of refreshing the published asset files from the yii-dashboard module?

2

Similar question ( and answer) here -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15614364/is-there-a-way-to-force-yii-to-reload-module-assets-on-every-request.

I have added the following to the components/Controller.php, but my style changes are still not showing up.


        protected function beforeAction($action){

            if(defined('YII_DEBUG') && YII_DEBUG){

                Yii::app()->assetManager->forceCopy = true;

            }

            return parent::beforeAction($action);

        }
3

you can force asset manager to publish the assets on every request


// in config/main.php under components

'assetManager' => array(

    'forceCopy' => YII_DEBUG ? true : false

)