Question

I’m developing a CMS for using Yii framework, the website has a frontend visible to everyone, and a backend for the logged in user. I have different templates for these two. However I don’t know how to assign a different template to my backend.

Here is my config/main.php, and the template that I have added is applied to the whole website.

return array(

    'theme'=>'cola_theme',
    ...
);

Answer 1

If you use different themes, you can update the theme property of the webapp, with:

Yii::app()->theme = 'case_sensitive_theme_name';

Alternatively, if you just want to use a different layout, you can update the layout property of your controller in the actions that are available for the backend ie:

$this->layout='//layouts/backend_layout';

Where the layouts folder is under protected/views/.

More on theming and layouts.