Front End Theme Selection For Yii2 ¶

1. Installation
2. Usage
3. Translation
4. Cookie
5. Feedback

This is a simple extension to pick themes. The user chooses a theme from a dropdown box and the theme choice is stored in a cookie, the extension could easily be changed to work with a model too.

Installation ¶

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist cozumel/yii2-themepicker "*"

or add

"cozumel/yii2-themepicker": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage ¶

Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by :

<?= \cozumel\ThemePicker\ThemePicker::widget(); ?>

You will need to place it in each theme where you want to use it.

The default theme path is set as @app/themes. You may need to change this depending where your themes are.

Line 61 ThemePicker.php

Lines 30-36 Bootstrap.php

Just change @app/themes to @app/web/themes or wherever your themes are.

Translation ¶

Yii::t('theme_picker', 'Choose a theme')

Line 22 ThemePicker.php

Cookie ¶

The default cookie length is set to 180 days, this can be changed on line 44 ThemePicker.php

Feedback ¶

Comments and feedback are welcome, and thanks to the Yii community for a great framework.