YiiFunctions

Helper file, a collections of Yii function to make the Yii coding shorten.

The goal of this file is to make more simplication and new way of coding design.

• How to install this file ? Steps: 1 ) For you to able to organize the location of the directory, create a subfolder under the 'protected' folder name 'functions'

  2 ) On the index.php, insert the line

    require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/protected/functions/yii.php');
    
    before the line.
    
    Yii::createWebApplication($config)->run();
    
    EX:
    	<?php
  
    	// change the following paths if necessary
    	$yii=dirname(__FILE__).'/1.1.9/framework/yii.php';
    	$config=dirname(__FILE__).'/1.1.9/protected/config/main.php';
  
    	// remove the following lines when in production mode
    	defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG',true);
    	// specify how many levels of call stack should be shown in each log message
    	defined('YII_TRACE_LEVEL') or define('YII_TRACE_LEVEL',3);
    	
    	require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/protected/functions/yii.php'); // I insert this new line for my index.php file
    	
    	require_once($yii);
    	Yii::createWebApplication($config)->run();
  

  3 ) That's all, you're now finish installing the functions.

• How To use this functions? Benefits below:

Before : Yii::app()->

Now : webapp()->

Before : Yii::app()->params['params1']['params2']['params3']

Now : params('params1.params2.params3')

Before : CHtml::link($text, $url, $htmlOptions);

Now : hyperlink($text, $url, $htmlOptions)