Yii2 extension for Chaldene Admin Template

The extension adds support for the Chaldene Admin Template markup.

This extension includes easy applicable asset bundles, HTML layouts and basic widgets.

Installation

Your best CLI-friend will help you with this:

composer require mikbox74/yii2-chl

Starting the party

For beginning you must configure view component:

return [
    //...
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'class'   => \mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneView::class,
            //...
        ],
    ],
    //...
];

The mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneView overrides system layout path and makes some nice magic. For more magic you can use following properties:

• layout (string) - one of the three layout types: topnav (main menu on top), sidenav, sidenavhf (main menu at left). It's strongly recommended to use suitable constants from mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneLayouts.
• fixPage (boolean) - makes app heading and app footer fixed while you scroll the page.
• fixSide (boolean) - makes side heading, side footer, app heading and app footer fixed while you scroll the page.
• fixMain (boolean) - makes main heading, main footer, app heading and app footer fixed while you scroll the page.
• boxed (boolean) - limits the width of the page.
• showTitle (boolean) - Show the page title inside main heading panel.
• rtl (boolean) - Right to left content direction.
• widgets (array) - Config array where in you can explain how some widgets must be placed inside the view.

Themization

Since 1.1.6:

Look inside mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneThemes to use its constants:

return [
    //...
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'class'   => \mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneView::class,
            'colorTheme' => \mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneThemes::PETER_RIVER,
            //...
        ],
    ],
    //...
];

Before 1.1.6:

You can set one of these by configuring the assetManager component. Example:

return [
    //...
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'class'   => \mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneView::class,
            //...
        ],
        'assetManager' => [
            'class' => \yii\web\AssetManager::class,
            'bundles' => [
                \mikbox74\Chaldene\Assets\ChaldeneAsset::class => [
                    'theme' => \mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneThemes::PETER_RIVER,
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
    //...
];

Themes do not differ much from each other but may be you will like this feature ;)

More about widgets placement

I recommend to set up widgets in special file:

return [
    //...
    'components' => [
        'view' => [
            'class'   => \mikbox74\Chaldene\ChaldeneView::class,
            'widgets' => require 'widgets.php',
        ],
    ],
    //...
];

widgets.php:

return [
    'app-logo' => [
        'widget1',
        'widget2',
        'widget3',
        //...
    ],
    'mainmenu' => [
        'widget1',
        'widget2',
        'widget3',
        //...
    ],
    'app-search' => [
        //...
    ],
    //...
];

The first level is an associative array with the pairs 'place name' => 'widgets list in this place'.

The template has following places:

• app-logo
• mainmenu
• app-search
• app-nav
• dashhead-subtitle
• dashhead-toolbar
• before-content
• after-content
• main-footer
• app-footer
• side-heading (only sidenav and sidenavhf layouts)
• side-footer (only sidenav and sidenavhf layouts)
• mobile-search (visible on small screens after pushing search button)

Next level is the plain list of widgets. Every widget can be configured by three ways:

1. Plain text string. It will be placed right inside without any changing.
2. Configuration array with 'class' element and any properties of the specified class (Yii-way).
3. Anonimous function returns a class configuration array (like above).

In brief about widgets

• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\AlertNavitem - created to view some important information with icon, badge and dropdown list of messages. Add it in place inside UL menu and be happy.
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\Box - views content inside nice blocks (same as TWBS panes but little mode advanced).
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\Breadcrumbs - crumbles everywhere on your site.
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\Logo - shows your (or our) logo image in two wariants: small for mobiles and larger for other screens.
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\Message - a twin of \common\widgets\Alert from the Yii2-advanced app skeleton. It appears automatically and not need to be added in any place.
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\MetisMenu - this is the pop king in town. Add it wherever in you want to see awesome adaptive multilevel menu.
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\SearchForm - simple little search form with input and knob.
• mikbox74\Chaldene\Widgets\UserNavitem - can view a nav item with user avatar, username and dropdown user menu. Works properly inside UL tag (same as AlertNavitem)

Much more info see in DocComments.

And... Killer feature: decoratos!

Since 1.1.0 each widget from the package has a string propery decorator. You can use it to specify path to any decorator file you want (see somthing about ContentDecorator to get how it works). For example you can create file @common/views/decorators/example.php:

<div style="border: 1px solid red; background: pink;">
    <?= $content?>
</div>

and set the path as decorator for any widget.

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