view - render only works with full path

Yii 2.0 Installation and Setup
1

I am a complete novice with Yii2, but have decades of programming in other languages. I have bought "Yii2 By Example" by Fabrizio Caldarelli, and installed a vanilla basic Yii2 system, so I am on 2.0.12 with PHP 7.1.1 running locally on Win 10 Pro. I have got to chapter 2, which is the first use of a view in a "news" controller. There is a corresponding action funtion

localhost/basic/web/index.php?r=news/items-list

…

public  function actionItemsList()


{


    $newsList = [


        [ 'title' => 'First World War', 'date' => '1914-07-28' ],


        [ 'title' => 'Second World War', 'date' => '1939-09-01' ],


        [ 'title' => 'First man on the moon', 'date' => '1969-07-20' ]


    ];

// return $this->render(‘itemsList’,[‘newsList’ => $newsList]);

    return $this->render('@app/views/news/itemsList.php',['newsList' => $newsList]);


}

I have tried various flavours of the commented out line, but they always throw up this error

PHP Notice – yii\base\ErrorException

Use of undefined constant ‘itemsList’ - assumed ‘‘itemsList’’

However the one with the full path works fine. I have not changed any of the config of the installaion, but it seems something else is missing.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks

2

The “single quotes” aren’t single quotes.

3

sometimes operating systems behave weird with camel case paths, I would recommend go lowercase with dashes or underscores. that could be the problem try change it to lowercase filenames.

4

Well spotted. It is somewhat unfortunate that this code snippet came from the source download for the book!

Thanks for your help