How to fix 'Static page in sub-directory" issue in Yii2 - php

Question

I have setup my Yii2 powered website but I will like to get some of my static pages in sub-directories and then display the name of the sub-directory in the url. For example, have in site/hotel/pacific.php and site/mini-rooms/standard.php and then access them using xyz.com/hotel/pacific and xyz.com/mini-rooms/standard.
I have tried to follow some examples online but I am not sure why the are not working. Some of the examples are also for yii and not yii2.
Here is what I did:
In the SiteController.php, I had created a static page before using the code below and I can visit it atxyz.com/hotel/pacific. But now I am moving it into a subdirectory hotel. It was formerly inside the views/site folder:
public function actionPacific()
{
return $this->render('pacific');
}
I then created a folder name pages inside the view folder. Inside the pages folder, I created hotel folder and inside hotel folder I placed pacific.php file so I have views/site/pages/hotel/pacific.php
Also in the SiteController.php, I added this:
public function actions()
{
return [
'error' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\ErrorAction',
],
'captcha' => [
'class' => 'yii\captcha\CaptchaAction',
'fixedVerifyCode' => YII_ENV_TEST ? 'testme' : null,
],
'page' => [
'class'=>'CViewAction',
],
'hotels' => [
'class'=>'CViewAction',
'basePath' => 'pages/hotels'
],
];
}
I then configure my config/web.php by adding the code below:
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'enableStrictParsing'=>false,
'rules' => [
'<alias:[\w\-]+>' => 'site/<alias>',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
],
],
I got 404 error when I visit xyz.com/hotel/pacific.
How can I properly do this for both examples - xyz.com/hotel/pacific and xyz.com/mini-rooms/standard.

Answer 1

What I understood that you are mixing Yii 1 & 2 as CWebView is used in Yii1 and not Yii2. So what you need is probably yii\web\ViewAction, which will represent a single action. There might be better answers someone else could suggest.
So if you have a directory.
views/site/hotel/pacific.php
views/site/hotel/five-star.php
And you want to access the pacific.php view by typing in the URL xyz.com/hotel/pacific and five-star.php with xyz.com/hotel/five-star.
Then you should configure them like below
public function actions()
{
return [
'error' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\ErrorAction'
],
'pacific' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\ViewAction',
'defaultView' => 'pacific',
'viewPrefix' => 'hotel'
],
'five-star' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\ViewAction',
'defaultView' => 'five-star',
'viewPrefix' => 'hotel'
],
'captcha' => [
'class' => 'yii\captcha\CaptchaAction',
'fixedVerifyCode' => YII_ENV_TEST ? 'testme' : null
]
];
}
and then update the urlManager like below
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'enableStrictParsing'=>false,
'rules' => [
'/' => 'site/index',
'<alias:[\w\-]+>' => 'site/<alias>',
'hotel/<alias:[\w\-]+>' => 'site/<alias>',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>'
]
],
Now if you type in the browser xyz.com/hotel/pacific or xyz.com/hotel/five-star it will show you the corresponding views.
Hope it solves your problem.

Answer 2

I decided to create HotelController.php inside the controller folder and then create hotel folder under views folder. I then added pacific.php inside the hotel folder and add the action code inside HotelController.php as below.
public function actionPacific()
{
return $this->render('pacific');
}
It works as I wanted although I am not sure if there are better alternatives. I removed the rules in the url manager as I did not need them now. I only had to just go to mysite.com/hotel/pacific to display the page. I can create as many page as I need inside the folder and just add their action code.