Question

Many modules, extensions or other things in Yii try to load jQuery from the asset manager. Which is fine, I’ve quit hardcoding the include and instead I am embracing ‘registerCoreScript’.

The only issue is that it seems to be loading it near the bottom of the HEAD. I have a lot of other scripts and code that depend on jQuery, and they are loaded before it. How do I make sure that jQuery is the first thing loaded??

The truth is I don’t understand how it’s not the default behavior. jQuery doesn’t depend on anything, but lots of scripts depend on it…

Answer 1

You can use packages property of CClientScript component, and specify depends:

Yii::app()->clientScript->addPackage('give-some-name-to-script', array(
    'baseUrl'=>'base URL for the script files', // or basePath
    'js'=>array(list of js files relative to basePath/baseUrl),
    'depends'=>array('jquery')
));

Or do it this in config/main.php configuration:

'clientScript'=>array(
    'packages'=>array(
        'give-this-package-name'=>array(
            'basePath'=>'alias of the directory containing the script files',
            'js'=>array('first.js','second.js'),
            'depends'=>array('jquery')
    ),
)

And then use registerPackage:

Yii::app()->clientScript->registerPackage('your-package-name');

This is the only way that this can be done, i think. Of course this requires you to either group your javascript into a package and give it some name, or declare each script as a package.

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