Yii2: Yii 2: theming problem

[hyquoccuong]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I'm using theme for frontend application

I want to keep view files and modules in theme folder and follow this tutorial
https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/output-theming

My theme folder is /frontend/web/themes/mytheme

If I create

/mytheme/site/index.php

and use pathMap '@frontend/views' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme',

when I call site/index it render the view properly and theme asset files loaded (js and css)

But if I create folder views in mytheme folder and move site folder to inside

/mytheme/views/site/index.php

and use pathMap '@frontend/views' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme/views',, when I call site/index it render /mytheme/views/site/index.php view but theme assets files is not loaded, just some yii assets loaded properly

And this is my theme configuration part in for this theme in frontend/config/main.php:

'view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'baseUrl' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme,
                'basePath' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme,
                'pathMap' => [
                    //'@frontend/views' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme', 
                    '@frontend/views' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme/views',
                    '@frontend/modules' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme/modules',
                    '@frontend/components/widgets' => '@frontend/web/themes/mytheme/components/widgets',
                ],
            ],
        ],

What is the expected result?

Themes assets loaded

What do you get instead?

Themes assets missing

Additional info

| Q | A
| ---------------- | ---
| Yii version | 2.0.14
| PHP version | 7.1
| Operating system | Windows 10

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[neoacevedo]

I'm going to re-open the issue.

I was testing this issue, and I can reproduce it.

To have the theme assets inside @frontend/web/themes/myTheme/ I have to set the $basePath and the $baseUrl parameters set into the frontend\assets\AppAsset.php class

[samdark]

@neoacevedo do you have a solution?

[neoacevedo]

Manual debugging shows me that $basePath and $baseUrl properties from _yii\base\Theme_ are not being filled with the configuration set in

...
    view' => [
            'theme' => [
                'basePath' => '@app/themes/basic',
                'baseUrl' => '@web/themes/basic',
                'pathMap' => [
                    '@app/views' => '@app/themes/basic',
                ],
            ],
        ],

Both properties should have _@app/themes/basic_ and _@web/themes/basic_ or its translated aliases, but instead of it, I am getting null values. I have to use an own Theme class, setting it into the theme array config, or set both properties in the frontend/backend (advanced application) AppAsset class.

[samdark]

Any idea about the reason?

[neoacevedo]

I can't track about the null values, but I'd use className inside theme array. I will try to debug again to get a clue about the issue.