Yii - Controller in subdirectory

Question

I'm facing an issue with Yii Framework routing.

I've created controller, let's call it TestController.php

Then, I need to put it into a subdirectory called Make, so my structure would look like:

controllers/TestController.php
controllers/Make/TestController.php

Of ocurse, if I change it's name, it works perfectly but is there any way to put a controller of the same name in controllers directory and a subdirectory?

Edit
My URLManager config looks like:

'urlManager'=>array(
            'showScriptName' => false,
            'urlFormat'=>'path',
            'rules'=>array(
                'gii' => 'gii',
                'gii/<controller:\w+>' => 'gii/<controller>',
                'gii/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' =>                                                      'gii/<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
            ),
        ),

I have a controller Bookmarks. As I have some other things related to the bookmarks, I needed to create a directory bookmarks and put some controllers there, for example Categories.

Can't force to make it work.

Edit 2
Just checked clean application. It seems to be a Yii bug (?).

Edit 3
I've changed import configuration, as suggested:

'import'=>array(
        'application.models.*',
        'application.components.*',
        'application.controllers.bookmarks.*'
    ),

I have also created a correct route rule 'bookmarks/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'bookmarks/<controller>/<action>',.

My files structure is now as following:

BookmarksController.php
bookmarks/CategoriesController.php

Here's an exceptions that's being thrown:

exception 'CHttpException' with message 'The system is unable to find the requested action "categories".' in /home/root/www/yiitesting/framework/web/CController.php:477

Answer 1

Before making any subdirectory, be aware that Yii autoload function doesn't search subdirectories: Yii want to autoload the TestController class in the case of Controller, so add application.controllers.Make.* in your import declaration:

'import'=>array(
     .....
     'application.controllers.Make.*',
 ),

and of course you must add a rule to urlManager to help Yii look up correct Controller like @ldg did.

notes: in this case, Yii will look for views/Make/* for the view.

Answer 2

You should be able to update your URL Manager with an entry like:

'urlManager'=>array(
  'urlFormat'=>'path',
  'rules'=>array(
  'Make/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'Make/<controller>/<action>',
  ...

then access that controller via /Make/test[/action]

Answer 3

My nginx config:

rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php last;

My Yii urlManager config:

    'urlManager'=>array(
        'urlFormat'=>'path',
        'showScriptName' => false, 
        'rules'=>array(
              '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
              '<path:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<path>/<controller>/<action>',
            )
        ),

The following urlManager config also works:

    'urlManager'=>array(
        'urlFormat'=>'path',
        'showScriptName' => false,
        'rules'=>array(
              '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
              '<abc:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<abc>/<controller>/<action>',
            )
        ),