Yii - Modifing html generated by CListView - yii

Question

I'm using ClistView to display the content of a dataprovider.
ClistView is supposed to call a partial view, that will loop for each model.
I would like to display something (i.e. a tag) before the first model and something (i.e. a ) after the last model of the pagination.
Assume that I have a view (index.php):
$this->widget('zii.widgets.CListView', array(
'dataProvider'=>$localDataProvider,
'itemView'=>'_view', // refers to the partial view named '_post'
'summaryText'=>'Sono visualizzati i record da {start} a {end} su un totale di {count} libri',
'pager' => Array(
'header' => 'Vai alla pagina',
'prevPageLabel' => 'Indietro',
'nextPageLabel' => 'Avanti',
),
));
In _view.php I have just the cells of a table.
If I put before the widget the html to render the table header and just after the html to render the table footer I obtain that inside the div there is the html of the pager.
How I can shift the header and the footer directly in _view.php?
Thanks

Answer 1

With this class extension:
Yii::import('zii.widgets.CListView');
class PlainCListView extends CListView
{
public $preItemsTag = '';
public $postItemsTag = '';
public function renderItems()
{
echo $this->preItemsTag."\n";
$data=$this->dataProvider->getData();
if(($n=count($data))>0)
{
$owner=$this->getOwner();
$render=$owner instanceof CController ? 'renderPartial' : 'render';
$j=0;
foreach($data as $i=>$item)
{
$data=$this->viewData;
$data['index']=$i;
$data['data']=$item;
$data['widget']=$this;
$owner->$render($this->itemView,$data);
if($j++ < $n-1)
echo $this->separator;
}
}
else
$this->renderEmptyText();
echo $this->postItemsTag."\n";
}
}
I's possible to override the lines of the base version of the class
echo CHtml::openTag($this->itemsTagName,array('class'=>$this->itemsCssClass))."\n";
echo CHtml::closeTag($this->itemsTagName);
With this solution with code:
$pre_html = '<table><thead><th>Codice Account</th><th>Nome</th></thead><tbody>';
$post_html = '</tbody></table>';
$this->widget('zii.widgets.PlainCListView', array(
'dataProvider'=>$dataProvider,
'itemView'=>'_view',
'preItemsTag'=>$pre_html,
'postItemsTag'=>$post_html,
'summaryText'=>'Sono visualizzati i record da {start} a {end} su un totale di {count} libri',
'pager' => Array(
'header' => 'Vai alla pagina',
'prevPageLabel' => 'Indietro',
'nextPageLabel' => 'Avanti',
),
'sortableAttributes'=>array('titolo'),
'enableSorting'=>0,
));
It's possible to get in the output what I need.

Answer 2

Since you are trying to generate a table, you should be trying to do it using CGridView instead of CListView.

Answer 3

Try setting the template for the CClistView as
'template' => "<your header tag>{items}<your footer tag>{pager}",
you might arrange the template stuff as you need.