Yii2 Theme Integration not working?

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Yii2 Theme Integration ?

'view' => [
    'theme' => [
        'pathMap' => ['@app/views' => '@app/admin/views'],
        'baseUrl' => '@web/admin',
    ],
],

What's the question, show your component code. What are you doing, what you goal we can't image what do you nedd...... — ScaisEdge, Sep 27 '15 at 16:20
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25622565/yii2-theme-integration — Muhammad Shahzad, Apr 08 '16 at 10:00
@Deepak Syal : If it is any consolation I find Yii2 theme system entirely overly complicated and not very convention based. Every time it is a headache... — David J Eddy, Apr 15 '16 at 16:36

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '15 at 13:50

Hope you are using the advanced template

add a folder themes in the backend folder

make a subfolder with the theme name and make sure you have the layouts folder in that folder

ie your new layout folder path will be

backend/themes/themefoldername/layouts

in the folder backend/config/main.php

 'components' => [

        'view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'basePath' => '@backend/themes/themefoldername',
                'baseUrl' => '@backend/themes/themefoldername',
                'pathMap' => [
                    '@backend/views' => '@backend/themes/themefoldername',
                ],
            ],
        ],...

if you want to keep it in the web folder also you can do that,but make sure you change the path accordingly

what about if i am not using the advance template?? – ValRob Feb 19 '19 at 08:02 — ValRob, Feb 19 '19 at 08:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 18 '17 at 06:02

In advance template there is separate configuration for frontend and backend theme integration.

Frontend theme integration => "frontend/config/main.php" file :

'components' => [ 
    'view' => [
            'theme' => [

                'pathMap' => [
                    '@frontend/views' => '@themes/frontend/views', // need to // set alias first in your bootstrap.php file
                ],
            ],
        ],
],

Backend theme integration => "backend/config/main.php" file :

'components' => [ 
    'view' => [
            'theme' => [

                'pathMap' => [
                    '@backend/views' => '@themes/backend/views', // need to set // alias first in your "common/config/bootstrap.php" file
                ],
            ],
        ],
],

While coding take care of comments and directory paths and no need to write baseUrl or basePath.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 30 '15 at 03:31

create "themes" directory in web directory and create theme there.

then include this code in your main config file.

'view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/yourthemename',
                'pathMap' => [
                    '@app/views' => [
                        '@webroot/themes/yourthemename/views',
                    ]
                ],
            ],
]

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 13 '16 at 06:33

use this code in your web.php file.

'view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'class' => yii\base\Theme::className(),
                'basePath' => '@app/themes/themename',
                'baseUrl' =>'@web/themes/themename',
            ],
        ],

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 01 '16 at 14:37

Here is my code which i normally use for themeing. You can set param in params file and add theme name there or directly in the below code.

'view' => [
        'theme' => [
            'pathMap' => ['@app/views' => '@webroot/themes/themename/views'],
            'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/themename',
        ],
    ],

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 07 '16 at 12:06

if you are using yii2 basic then in config/web.php write this

return [
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'basePath' => '@app/themes/basic',
                'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/basic',
                'pathMap' => [
                    '@app/views' => '@app/themes/basic',
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
];

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 21 '16 at 17:40

I have the adminlte theme this be find the vendor folder, then in the config/main.php added this:

'components' => [         
     'view' => [
     'theme' => [
         'pathMap' => [
            '@app/views' => '@vendor/dmstr/yii2-adminlte-asset/example-views/yiisoft/yii2-app'
         ],
     ],
    ],

Vikram · Answer 8 · 2017-01-18T16:52:10.693

In basic installation under config/web.php add the code under component block.

'components' => [
               ................
               ....................
    'view' => [
        'theme' => [
            'pathMap' => [
                '@app/views' => '@app/themes/mytheme',
                '@app/modules' => '@app/themes/mytheme/modules',
            ],
            'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/mytheme',
        ],
    ],
 ...........
]

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 22 '17 at 04:28

0

Refer below link for install theme and setup.

http://banoprogrammer.blogspot.in/2017/07/backend-theme-installation.html

answered Aug 22 '17 at 04:28

Naushil Jain

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score 0 · Answer 10 · edited Mar 25 '18 at 13:33

I set up a theme for my frontend using the advanced template. My themes are located in the themes folder which I created for storing the themes. eg. web/themes/cerulean. There are NO physical view folders under any of the individual theme folders as might be suggested by some of the key/value pairs that I have seen eg. ['@app/views' => '@webroot/themes/themename/views]. In fact, my code runs with and without value's views subfolder. This is my working code => @webroot/themes/cerulean as opposed to @webroot/themes/cerulean/views but it does need key's views subfolder. ie. @app/views. I have tested both of these variations and they both work so do not be concerned whether you have a view on the end of the value or not.

Because I am using a theme for the frontend I have replaced @app/views as above with @frontend/views. This is my code in my frontend/config/main.php file.

 'view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'pathMap' => ['@frontend/views' => '@webroot/themes/cerulean',],
                'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/cerulean',                
            ],
        ],

This is the code in my frontend\assets\appasset.php file:

namespace frontend\assets;

use yii\web\AssetBundle;

use Yii;
Yii::setAlias('@themes', Yii::$app->view->theme->baseUrl);

/**
* Main frontend application asset bundle.
*/
class AppAsset extends AssetBundle
{
    public $basePath = '@webroot';
    //public $baseUrl = '@web';
    public $baseUrl = '@themes';
    public $css = [
        'css/site.css',
    ];
    public $js = [
    ];
    public $depends = [
        'yii\web\YiiAsset',
        'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset',
    ];
}

You will notice above that I have substituted the

public $baseUrl = '@web';

with an alias @themes which I have set at the top namely...

Yii::setAlias('@themes', Yii::$app->view->theme->baseUrl);

The baseurl in the code above is now set to @themes which actually represents @web/themes/cerulean' taken from the 'view' => 'theme' setting located in the main.php file under frontend/config.

Yii2 Theme Integration not working?

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