Displaying subdirectory name in the url in Yii2 for static pages

Question

Iam creating static pages for a client using Yii2. I am using yii2 because the client has some other requirements to scale up the web later. I use Yii2 Basic app. The yii2 basic has default pages like about, contact etc. The url for those pages after enabling pretty url is

 www.example.com/about

etc

Now i need to create pages

"xyz.php"

under a sub directory like

"abc"

. So i need my url to be www.example.com/abc/xyz

How do i achieve this? to be informed iam a learner, I followed url rules, helpers but did not find a strong solution.

Answer 1

create a controller like StaticController.php and use the yii\web\ViewAction http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-web-viewaction.html

As an example:

namespace app\controllers;

use Yii;
use yii\web\Controller;
use yii\filters\AccessControl;

/**
 * StaticController is only for displaying static pages.
 */
class StaticController extends Controller
{
    public $defaultAction = 'page';

    public function behaviors()
    {
        return [
            'access' => [
                'class' => AccessControl::className(),
                'rules' => [
                    [
                        'actions' => ['page'],
                        'allow' => true,
                        'roles' => ['@'],
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ];
    }

    public function actions()
    {
        return [
            'page'=>array(
                'class'=>'yii\web\ViewAction',
                'viewPrefix'=>null, // or set a specific directory e.g. 'static-pages' if you want to store the static pages in a subdirectory
            ),
        ];
    }
}

And add this Rule to your UrlManager (where static is your controller name)

'urlManager' => [
    'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
    'showScriptName' => false,
    'rules' => [
        '<controller:static>/<view:.*>' => '<controller>',
        ...
    ]
]

Now you can store your static pages in the directory /view/static/

e.g. index.php, test.php or even in subdirectories /sub/test2.php

The urls would be like /static (or /static/index), /static/test1, /static/sub/test2

The 1st pathname is of course the controller name, but you can also change the url rule to something else or rename the controller.