GII folder problem

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello,

I cannot get this to work.

I am using Giif or Yii2 and in the CRUD generator, I try those paths as I want the views to go in the "backend" folder but each time, the views are generated in the frontend/web folder.

I tried for the "View Path"

/xampp/htdocs/yii2/backend/views/foldername <—this fails

then tried this:

backend/views/foldername failed too

Finally tried with nothing…same again, all get generated in the frontend/web folder.

Any idea why please?

Thank you

2

Check the log for errors.

Could be permission issues that prevents Gii from writing to the view folder?

What output does Gii give when you preview the generated files?

3

Jacmoe, thanks for the help.

Actually I could not find any logs as they were no errors, it was just a path problem, in order to get the vies in the right folder I had to add this in the "view path":

C:\xampp\htdocs\yii2\backend\views\page-layout

I am wondering if there is a way to tell Yii2 to keep the paths this way in the GII generator instead of retyping them each time.

4

Hi!

When you use gii,

you can also use aliases for the view generation.

Basic-app:




@app/views/something

Advanced app:




@frontend/views/something/

@backend/views/something/

@common/views/something/

Described here:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-start-gii.html

Regards

5

Cool!

Thank you so much!