O Guia Definitivo do Yii 1.1

While using a theme we can quickly change the outlook of views, we can use skins to
systematically customize the outlook of the widgets used in the views.
A skin is an array of name-value pairs that can be used to initialize the properties of a
widget. A skin belongs to a widget class, and a widget class can have multiple skins
identified by their names. For example, we can have a skin for the CLinkPager widget and
the skin is named as classic.
In order to use the skin feature, we first need to modify the application configuration by
configuring the CWidgetFactory::enableSkin property to be true for the widgetFactory
application component:
return array(
'components'=>array(
'widgetFactory'=>array(
'enableSkin'=>true,
),
),
);
Please note that in versions prior to 1.1.3, you need to use the following configuration to
enable widget skinning:
return array(
'components'=>array(
'widgetFactory'=>array(
'class'=>'CWidgetFactory',
),
),
);
We then create the needed skins. Skins belonging to the same widget class are stored in a
single PHP script file whose name is the widget class name. All these skin files are stored
under protected/views/skins, by default. If you want to change this to be a different
directory, you may configure the skinPath property of the widgetFactory component. As an
example, we may create under protected/views/skins a file namedCLinkPager.php whose
content is as follows,