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Bootstrap widgets
Yii includes support of Bootstrap 3 markup and components framework out of the box. It is an excellent framework that allows you to speed up development a lot.
Bootstrap is generally about two parts:
- Basics such as grid system, typography, helper classes and responsive utilities.
- Ready to use components such as menus, pagination, modal boxes, tabs etc.
Basics
Yii doesn't wrap bootstrap basics into PHP code since HTML is very simple by itself in this case. You can find details
about using the basics at bootstrap documentation website. Still Yii provides a
convenient way to include bootstrap assets in your pages with a single line added to AppAsset.php located in your
config directory:
public $depends = array(
'yii\web\YiiAsset',
'yii\bootstrap\BootstrapAsset', // this line
);
Using bootstrap through Yii asset manager allows you to combine and minimize its resources with your own ones when needed.
Yii widgets
Most complex bootstrap components are wrapped into Yii widgets to allow more robust syntax and integrate with
framework features. All widgets belong to \yii\bootstrap namespace. Let's review these.