Yii is not auto including jquery

Question

I have a strange problem with Yii & Jquery:

When I open a page which uses ajax/jquery on localhost Yii does automatically add asset include calls to the of the page:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/PATH/assets/f72b359d/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/PATH/assets/2e442e1a/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/PATH/assets/2e442e1a/jquery.cookie.js"></script>

However when I run same code on the server Yii does not do it hense no Jquery available.

I'd appreciate if someone could direct to a way to solve it.

Solution 1

It seems like you're not registering jQuery in the correct way. You must add the following line in /protected/views/layout/main.php before </head> tag:

<?php Yii::app()->clientScript->registerCoreScript('jquery'); ?>

It will load jQuery automatically. Remember, if the YII_DEBUG flag is on it will load non-minified version, when deactivated (on production) it will load minified version. Hope this will fix your problem.

Solution 2

If all is working on your local machine it might be a permission problems

Have you checked that /assets is writable on your server ?

Yii publishes the assets it needs at runtime in this directory

Comments

[acorncom]

Actually the location of that line doesn't matter. You can place it in a controller, in a view, etc. But I don't think that is the problem here

[Alexei Tenitski]

That was the first thing I have checked and all directories are writable.

[Alexei Tenitski]

That was the solution. I did not explicitly register jQuery as for some reason it was working fine so I didn't even know I should do it. It have just occurred to me that it was working because Yii Debug Toolbar was including jQuery for me and that toolbar was switched off on the server.