Yiibooster Vs. Bootstrap

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I need a navbar (having static content) which I find Yiibooster offers as [font=“Courier New”]bootstrap.widgets.TbNavbar[/font]. What I’m trying to understand is what are the pros and cons of using [font=“Courier New”]bootstrap.widgets.TbNavbar[/font] version as opposed to directly using bootstrap’s navbar.

One pro that I can think of is that using [font="Courier New"]bootstrap.widgets.TbNavbar[/font] insulates me from underlying bootstrap css changes and can perhaps upgraded/migrate to a newer version more easily. But can I customize as easily?

I guess this is a generalized question. When I have static content that’s not tied to any model etc., which version should I stick to? Yiibooster’s or direct twitter bootstrap and why?

2

Creating static navbar is, like, six lines of HTML.

Why on earth everybody wants an extension for simple things?..

3

So I’ve got [font=“Courier New”]yiibooster[/font] integrated into my app. I’m trying to figure out how to use the bootstrap directly from yiibooster extension folder: [font=“Courier New”]yiibooster/assets/bootstrap/css[/font].

For example, the bootstrap default navbar example page here, gives the following html:




<nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation">

  <!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display -->

  <div class="navbar-header">

  <!-- More code here--> 

  </div>

</nav>

I can’t find [font=“Courier New”]navbar-default[/font] in any of the css files available @ [font=“Courier New”]yiibooster/assets/bootstrap/css[/font].

The corresponding yiibooster code is:




$this->widget(

	'bootstrap.widgets.TbNavbar',

	array(

		'brand' => $this->pageTitle,

		'fixed' => false,

		'items' => array(

			array(

				'class' => 'bootstrap.widgets.TbMenu',

				'items' => array(

					array('label' => 'Home', 'url' => Yii::app()->createUrl('/site/index'), 'active' => true),

					array('label' => 'About', 'url' => Yii::app()->createUrl('/site/page', array('view'=>'about'))),

					array('label' => 'Contact', 'url' => Yii::app()->createUrl('/site/contact')),

					array('label' => 'Login', 'url' => Yii::app()->createUrl('/site/login')),

				)

			)

		)

	)

If you could help, I would certainly like to avoid using extensions unnecessarily.

4

I suppose yiibooster uses Bootstrap 2, and the current version is 3, so you need an older version of docs, that can be found here:

http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/

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