Overriding Views

In case you need to override the default views (that you surely have to do if you use a different them than default's Bootstrap), Yii2 provides a mechanism that is really easy to do:

// ... other configuration here

'components' => [
    'view' => [
        'theme' => [
            'pathMap' => [
                '@Da/User/resources/views' => '@app/views/user'
            ]
        ]
    ]
]

// ...

The above code tells Yii2 to search on @app/view/user for views prior to go to @Da/User/resources/views. That is, if a view is found on @app/view/user that matches the required render it will be displayed instead of the one on @Da/User/resources/views.

You need to remember that the folder structure on your new location must match that of the module. For example, if we wish to override the login.php view using the above setting, we would have to create the following structure on our path:

app  [ Your root ]
|
└─ views
    └─ user
        └─ security
             login.php

See how it follows the same structure as within the User's module resources/views path? Well, that's what you should do with any of the others in order to override them.

There is another way, and is by setting the viewPath attribute of the module:

'modules' => [
    'user' => [
        'class' => Da\User\Module::class,
        'viewPath' => '@app/views/user'
    ],
],

But it will force you to override ALL views from the module. The recommended way is throughout the theme property of view component as previously mentioned.

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