I installed Yii on my local machine this weekend and have a question about the siteController. I created a bunch of models,views, and controllers using gii. I can access those controllers directly by going to www.mysite.com/controller_name. While looking at the default install and views/layouts/main.php I noticed the default nav-menu links go through the site controller so the url looks like www.mysite.com/site/about. I took a peek at the siteController and it shows the various actions for those pages.
I am wanting to add new links my nav menu and some new pages/views to my site but I don’t know if I should go through the site controller or just access the controllers directly. Does it matter? I may be entirely misunderstanding the purposes of the various controllers. I’m brand new to MVC. Here is a snippet of the code I was looking at.
views/layouts/main.php
<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu',array(
'items'=>array(
array('label'=>'Home', 'url'=>array('/site/index')), //uses the site controller
array('label'=>'About', 'url'=>array('/site/page', 'view'=>'about')),
array('label'=>'Contact', 'url'=>array('/site/contact'),
array('label'=>'User', 'url'=>array('/user')), //directly accesses the user controller. Is one method preferred over the other?
),
'htmlOptions'=>array(
'class'=>'nav',
),
)); ?>
If possible, I would like to be consistent and either use www.mysite.com/site/other-pages or www.mysite.com/other-pages for everything. I’ve already removed index.php using .htaccess which is why I didn’t show it.