Components now support a shared /components/partials directory used as a fallback when a partial is not found.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+* **Build 111** (2014-06-xx)
+  - Components now support a shared `/partials` directory used as a fallback when a partial is not found.
+
 * **Build 110** (2014-06-24)
   - Created a new Grid form widget for managing tabular data.
   - Widget identifiers have changed to remove the alias if it matches the default alias.

modules/cms/classes/ComponentBase.php

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ abstract class ComponentBase extends Extendable
 
         $className = Str::normalizeClassName(get_called_class());
         $this->dirName = strtolower(str_replace('\\', '/', $className));
-        $this->assetPath = Config::get('cms.pluginsDir') . dirname(dirname($this->dirName));
+        $this->assetPath = Config::get('cms.pluginsDir').dirname(dirname($this->dirName));
 
         parent::__construct();
     }
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ abstract class ComponentBase extends Extendable
      */
     public function getPath()
     {
-        return base_path() . Config::get('cms.pluginsDir') . $this->dirName;
+        return base_path().Config::get('cms.pluginsDir').$this->dirName;
     }
 
     /**

modules/cms/classes/ComponentPartial.php

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <?php namespace Cms\Classes;
 
+use File;
+
 /**
  * The CMS component partial class.
  *
@@ -49,6 +51,18 @@ class ComponentPartial extends CmsObject
      */
     public static function getFilePath($component, $fileName)
     {
-        return $component->getPath().'/'.$fileName;
+        $path = $component->getPath().'/'.$fileName;
+
+        /*
+         * Check the shared "/partials" directory for the partial
+         */
+        if (!File::isFile($path)) {
+            $sharedDir = dirname($component->getPath()).'/partials';
+            $sharedPath = $sharedDir.'/'.$fileName;
+            if (File::isFile($sharedPath))
+                return $sharedPath;
+        }
+
+        return $path;
     }
 }