Hi,
I try to create URL rules to match static pages located in subdirectories of /site/pages.
For example, I have protected\views\site\pages\subdir1 with php scripts inside.
I want to create a rule to match any file inside that dir.
I can’t find out.
This rule works:
'subdir1/script1'=>array('site/page', 'defaultParams'=>array('view'=>'subdir1.script1')),
but I’d like a general rule because there will be many files so I would not have to write a rule for each file.
Thanks a lot.
I’ve finally found the solution:
'subdir/<scriptname>:[-\w]+>'=>'site/page/view/subdir.<scriptname>',
If We have such files:
/protected/views/site/pages/subdir/bla-bla.php
/protected/views/site/pages/subdir/whatever.php
calls to
http://mysite/subdir/bla-bla will route to site/page/view/subdir.bla-bla
http://mysite/subdir/whatever will route to site/page/view/subdir.whatever
and so on
The next step would be to find something completely generic for anything inside /protected/views/site/pages/ because with this solution, we need one rule by subdir, which is already better than one rule for each file in each subdir…
One solution that my co-worker and I came up with is that we used the missing action method within the CController and overridden it in the "protected/components/Controller.php" to intercept static pages and dynamically load static pages after the action. I.E. "url/module/controller/action".
public function missingAction($actionID) {
$views = $this->getViewPath();
if (Yii::app()->file->set($views . "/" . $actionID . ".php")->exists) {
$this->render($actionID);
} else {
throw new CHttpException(404, Yii::t('yii', 'The system is unable to find the requested action "{action}".', array('{action}' => $actionID == '' ? $this->defaultAction : $actionID)));
}
}
The
Yii::app()->file->set($views . "/" . $actionID . ".php")->exists
is from the Cfile extension.
The url rules that we used were:
'rules' => array(
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'site/page/<view:\w+>' => 'site/page',
),
We decided to do this because we felt that adding more and more rules for the web site would create a performance issue.
I hope this helped.
Thanks for your answser.
That’s interesting but I wanted to achieve that with a CUrlRule because it seemed “cleaner” to me.
In case I can’t find a rule and to save some time, I might use your solution, replacing
if(Yii::app()->file->set($views . "/" . $actionID . ".php")->exists)
with the good old file_exists
if(file_exists($views . "/" . $actionID . ".php"))
And this:
'rules' => array(
'site/page/<view:\w+>' => 'site/page',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
),
instead of
'rules' => array(
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'site/page/<view:\w+>' => 'site/page',
),
How do you create the link to the subdirectories?
When I use CHtml::link to build it like this…
CHtml::link(“test”, array(’/site/page’, ‘view’=>‘subdir/whatever’))
I get a link like this…
/site/page/subdir%2Fwhatever
instead of the following, which works
/site/page/subdir/whatever
I would prefer to use ::link and ::normalizeUrl so that if I change the paths, the links won’t break.
This is for any who still have issues with static pages in subdirectories.
First, go to your controller actions & add an action to render static pages from subdirectory, like illustrated below.
public function actions()
{
return array(
// page action renders "static" pages stored under 'protected/views/site/pages'
// They can be accessed via: index.php?r=site/page&view=FileName
'page'=>array(
'class'=>'CViewAction',
),
'directory1'=>array(
'class'=>'CViewAction',
'basePath' => 'pages/directory1'
),
'directory2'=>array(
'class'=>'CViewAction',
'basePath' => 'pages/directory2'
),
);
}
Then head over to views/site/pages & create the two directories under the pages folder
eg /views/site/pages/directory1 …
create you scripts & places them here. You can create you urls like so
array('label'=>'Page Title', 'url'=>array('/site/directory1', 'view'=>'file-name-of-static-page')),
For URL Rules you do something like this
'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'appendParams'=>true,
'rules'=>array(
'/'=>'site/index',
'<view:[\w\-]+>'=>'site/page',
'/directory1/<view:[\w\-]+>'=>'site/directory1',
'/directory2/<view:[\w\-]+>'=>'site/directory2',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
),
'showScriptName' => FALSE,
'caseSensitive'=>false,
),
in the end you will have the following link -
http://www.example.com/directory1/static-page-name