I was hoping to get some help in using Yii with bootstrap. The default initialization installs with the blueprint framework, and I wanted to know how I could change it to use the bootstrap framework. I have searched, but most of what I can find is to use the yii-bootstrap extension. But that extension is not fully documented, and when I want to customize things, I am having trouble doing so. So I would like to use the bootstap components directly within Yii
I started by replacing the css files with necessary files needed by bootstrap, but I noticed there were some references in the default installation (like column1.php, column2.php) that referenced blueprint specific styles (like span-5, span-19).
What I wanted to know, is there any other places I should look? Should I delete the columnX php files? Has anyone done this before and has any recommendations on the setup/layout of files?
Thanks for the quick reply, but I was hoping not to use an extension, but rather use the bootstrap library directly. I understand that the extension provide a lot of built in functionality that give me objects to work with that will directly use bootstrap. But the problem occurs when I need to do some customization, and I cannot figure out how to do it via the extension’s objects.
There are a lot more examples out there to do things with bootstrap then doing them via the extensions.
But if using extensions is the best/only way to accomplish the use of another stylesheet framework other than blueprint, then I guess I will have to go with that approach(?)
you can use it directly if you dont want to use any extension. create new theme under themes folder example bootstrap and download the bootstrap into it and then create layouts and views there and then configure your application to use that thene
