yii2-metronic
Yii2 Metronic theme integration. Currently is supported the version 4.6, (*1)
Installation
The extension is in development and the only way to use this fork is through through composer., (*2)
So add it to your composer.json with this composer command:, (*3)
php composer.phar require dlds/yii2-metronic dev-master
Then You've to unzip the contents of your metronic Zip theme inside the @webroot/metronic folder. Check Aliases., (*4)
You should have a folder structure like this:, (*5)
- app/
- web/
- metronic/
- _documentation
- _resources
- _start
- theme
- theme_rtl
Quick Start
Edit your config/web.php configuration file and add the metronic component:, (*6)
'components' => [
'metronic'=>[
'class'=>'DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic',
'resources'=>'[path to my web]/web/metronic/assets/theme/assets',
'style'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::STYLE_MATERIAL,
'theme'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::THEME_LIGHT,
'layoutOption'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::LAYOUT_FLUID,
'headerOption'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::HEADER_FIXED,
'sidebarPosition'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::SIDEBAR_POSITION_LEFT,
'sidebarOption'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::SIDEBAR_MENU_ACCORDION,
'footerOption'=>\DevGroup\Metronic\Metronic::FOOTER_FIXED,
],
]
WARNING
Check the "resources" key. This component field is used to locate the content of the zip theme.
The component try to create a symlink to this directory inside it's folder. Eventually this may not work!
In the case the link is invalid, you've to build it by yourself :), (*7)
My vendor folder looks like this:, (*8)
- app/
- [...]
- vendor/
- dlds/
- yii2-metronic/
- assets -> symlink to /var/www/project/web/metronic/assets/theme/assets
- builders/
- bundles/
- helpers/
- layouts/
- widgets/
I suggest also to configure the assetManager. My actual configuration is this:, (*9)
'assetManager' => [
'linkAssets' => true,
'bundles' => [
'yii\web\JqueryAsset' => [
'sourcePath' => null, // do not publish the bundle
'js' => [
'//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js', // use custom jquery
]
],
'DevGroup\Metronic\bundles\ThemeAsset' => [
'addons'=>[
'default/login'=>[
'css'=>[
'pages/css/login-4.min.css',
],
'js'=>[
'global/plugins/backstretch/jquery.backstretch.min.js',
]
],
]
],
],
],
In the ThemeAsset class i've added the support for addons. You can specify additional css/js for specific controller/action., (*10)
In the example is visible the way to add login-4.min.css and jquery.backstretch.min.js to the login page (in my case, the actionLogin is managed by a controller named DefaultController)., (*11)
Configuring the layout for your views is the last step., (*12)
The metronic component contains a sample layout view. I've not checked it. I'm working on my layout :), (*13)
Here is my sample views/layout/main.php:, (*14)
assetManager->getPublishedUrl($asset->sourcePath);
?>
beginPage() ?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="<?= Yii::$app->language ?>">
<head>
<meta charset="<?= Yii::$app->charset ?>">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<?= Html::csrfMetaTags() ?>
<title><?= Html::encode($this->title) ?></title>
<?php $this->head() ?>
</head>
<body <?= Layout::getHtmlOptions('body',['class'=>'page-container-bg-solid'],true) ?>>
beginBody() ?>
= $this->render('parts/header.php', ['directoryAsset' => $directoryAsset]) ?>
= $this->render('parts/sidebar.php', ['directoryAsset' => $directoryAsset]) ?>
= $this->render('parts/content.php', ['content' => $content, 'directoryAsset' => $directoryAsset]) ?>
= $this->render('parts/footer.php', ['directoryAsset' => $directoryAsset]) ?>
endBody() ?>
</body>
</html>
endPage() ?>
Metronic theme require that you replace yii\helpers\Html with it's helper. So, you have to add a config/bootstrap.php with the following content:, (*15)
<?php
Yii::$classMap['yii\helpers\Html'] = '@vendor/dlds/yii2-metronic/helpers/Html.php';
?>
The file bootstrap.php should be loaded before the web application is created. So you need to edit your web/index.php file
and adjust it, and add a require directive. The file content should look like this:, (*16)
<?php
// comment out the following two lines when deployed to production
defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true);
defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev');
require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');
$config = require(__DIR__ . '/../config/web.php');
require(__DIR__ . '/../config/bootstrap.php');
(new yii\web\Application($config))->run();
Things to notice:, (*17)
- I've moved the rendering of the main parts to separate files (parts/*). You can build this files and add them to your project.
- I pass everywhere the $directoryAsset variable: this contain the path to the assets. Useful to load images bundled with the metronic theme.
- the BODY tag is managed with a Layout::getHtmlOptions(). This method is able to build all the Metronic required classes.
- Always check to use $this->beginPage(), $this->beginBody() and relatives $this->endBody() and $this->endPage() in the proper places :)
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