Help with button and link

[education]

Hello,

I am using yii version 1.1.13 that a developer used to build an online reservation system for our company. I am no programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but have been slowly learning about the yii framework.

I am having a problem understanding/figuring out a piece of code that I have where I want to display a button that, when pressed, will display a static php page (about.php->located in the pages folder. Here is the code:

<p><?php $image = CHtml::image(Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.'/images/EventButton.png'); 

echo CHtml::link($image,array('Event/index')); ?> <b>to view our upcoming events.</b></p>

</ br>

<p><?php $image = CHtml::image(Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.'/images/EventButton.png'); 

echo CHtml::link($image,array('pages/About')); ?>About Us</p>

</ br>

<p><?php $image = CHtml::image(Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.'/images/EventButton.png'); 

echo CHtml::link($image,array('Event/index')); ?>This is a test</p>

</ br>

There are three buttons on top of each other (I just copied and pasted). The first button works and ‘points’ to the correct page/function…however, the second button is the one I am having issues with. What am I missing in the code of the second button to ‘point’ it to display the about.php page? It is driving me crazy because I know it is probably something simple (I hope).

Thanks for all your help and expertise.

[dragan.zivkovic (Dragan Zivkovic Ts)]

What are U getting from this second button, asking cause this looks like bad formed URL. Also how U paste it here (‘pages/About’) is pointing to PagesController/actionAbout, but action name should be lowercase like ‘pages/about’.

[education]

What are U getting from this second button, asking cause this looks like bad formed URL. Also how U paste it here (‘pages/About’) is pointing to PagesController/actionAbout, but action name should be lowercase like ‘pages/about’.

Thanks for the reply…

All I am trying to accomplish is a ‘simple’ button link to a static php page I have placed where all static php pages should reside(according to what I have read): ../protected/views/site/pages/about.php

The standard HTML code of what I’m trying to do would look like: <a href=“the-page-i-want-button-to-link-to”><img src=“button_image_file.jpg”></a>

Thanks.

[newbiedo (Apsprint)]

Thanks for the reply…

All I am trying to accomplish is a ‘simple’ button link to a static php page I have placed where all static php pages should reside(according to what I have read): ../protected/views/site/pages/about.php

The standard HTML code of what I’m trying to do would look like: <a href=“the-page-i-want-button-to-link-to”><img src=“button_image_file.jpg”></a>

Thanks.

There is very good wiki about this sort of thing - By Example CHtml, http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/48/by-example-chtml/ .

In this case you would want something like…

$path = Yii::app()->request->baseUrl.’/images/’;

$button = CHtml::image($path.“button_image_file.jpg”, ‘ALT’);

echo CHtml::link($button, array(‘site/page’, ‘view’=>‘about’));

[reykel (Rhpalacios66)]

This is the url you’re trying to get

http://localhost/test_app/index.php?r=site/page&view=about

and you can get it from a code line like this

‘url’=>array(’/site/page’, ‘view’=>‘about’)),

I agree with newbiedo find that wiki and read it cause these are fundamental issues to write a good code

I hope this can be a help for you… Don’t stop communicating… bring some feedback to the forum

[education]

Thank you everyone who replied…thanks for the link to the YII resource, I’ll use it. Thanks again for the help I do appreciate everyone’s expertise.