How can I change directory name in views directory

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have controller class name ‘MyFoo’. Right now Iam storing views in folder with same name of view folder. My view folder name is ‘myFoo’. Can I change my view’s folder name as ‘barViews’ and there should be no errors from controller and controller finds ‘views’ in that folder.

In simple, I don’t want to be the same name of both views folder and Controller class.

Can some one guide me in this regards.

Thanks in advance

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In your controller overide getViewPath() so it returns the new path of your view files

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if the barViews is under the protected/view folder you can even use

$this->render(’/barViews/index’,…) instead of $this->render(‘index’,…)

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The Yii rendering mechanism basically works these options:

  1. $this->render("foo"); will look for foo.php in a folder having the same name as the controller under views directory.

  2. $this->render("application.mypath.to.viewfile"); will look for mypath/to/viewfile.php

  3. $this->render("/mypath"); placing a forward slash before the view path, will explicitly look for the given path.

For more info look at : CController.php line 602

I hope this helps.

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Gevik,

This post is extremely helpful! I wish I could have found this information on the ‘views’ page of the yii documentation. Would have saved a bit of time for me and I am sure others as well! Thank you for contributing to the forum and therefore the entire Yii Community.