Customize Yii2 plugin without touching core vendor folder

Question

Hi I am using Yii2 plugin for login and user management: https://github.com/webvimark/user-management

I want to customize view files of this plugin. How can I do this without touching to core file in vendor folder?

Possible duplicate of [How to customize vendor view files?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31231120/how-to-customize-vendor-view-files) — robsch, Jun 26 '18 at 06:31

rob006 · Answer 1 · 2018-06-28T08:27:32.387

1

You can use theming to override some view files. In your config:

'components' => [
    // ...
    'view' => [
        'theme' => [
            'pathMap' => [
                '@vendor/webvimark/module-user-management/views' => '@app/views/user-management',
            ],
        ],
    ],
],

Then put your views into @app/views/user-management directory.

But if extension is not maintained anymore you may consider forking extension, do changes in fork and use it as a dependency.

edited Jun 28 '18 at 08:27

answered Jun 25 '18 at 12:50

rob006

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yii\base\InvalidArgumentException: Invalid path alias: @webvimark/modules/UserManagement/views in D:\xampp7\htdocs\phprobo_yii\vendor\yiisoft\yii2\BaseYii.php:154 – Vishal Petkar Jun 25 '18 at 14:42
Are you sore that you have this extension installed? – rob006 Jun 27 '18 at 09:35
Yes. I have that extension installed on location: vendor\webvimark\module-user-management – Vishal Petkar Jun 28 '18 at 07:33
See my update. It looks like this extension does not have valid composer type, so related aliases are not registered by Yii. – rob006 Jun 28 '18 at 08:28
Any other authentication library you know for Yii2? Which is fully customizable. – Vishal Petkar Jun 29 '18 at 12:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '18 at 12:28

Extent the component/module and the class in your project

Create User Config Class extends from the UserConfig.

class YourClass-UserConfig extends webvimark\modules\UserManagement\components\UserConfig
{
/* Custom As you want  */
}

and UserManagementModule

class YourClass-UserManagementModule extends webvimark\modules\UserManagement\UserManagementModule
{ 
/* Custom As you want */
}

and in config add your component

components'=>[
    'user' => [
        'class' => 'YourPackage\YourClass-UserConfig',
    ],
],

'modules'=>[
    'user-management' => [
        'class' => 'YourPackage\YourClass-UserManagementModule',

In your class custom as you want.

Customize Yii2 plugin without touching core vendor folder

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