Absolute URL on localhost and web server for YII Framework? - php

Question

I am using YII2 framework in netbeans, every time my project is deployed to the web server I have to change the url to that of the web server from localhost.
Therefore,
Created a config.php file in the controller folder
define("LOCAL", "http://localhost");
define("WEB", "http://website.com");
global $environment;
$environment= LOCAL; //change to WEB if you're live
Every file that needs it, put this at the top
include_once(dirname( __FILE __)."/config.php");
and every time the url is needed in the code call it using
echo $environment;
But I get the error that $environment is not defined.
What am I doing wrong?
Reference How to implement absolute URLs on localhost and web server?

Answer 1

Create db_config.php file in you config folder like below -
define('DB_NAME', '');
define('DB_USER', 'root');
define('DB_PASSWORD', '');
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');
after that - if you want to access that global variables then user like this -
create new function for connection in your controller
private function connectToDb($db_name) {
include Yii::getAlias('#app') . "/config/db_config.php"; // Include db_config.php file
$connection = new \yii\db\Connection([
'dsn' => 'mysql:host=' . DB_HOST . ';dbname=' . $db_name,
'username' => DB_USER,
'password' => DB_PASSWORD,
]);
return $connection;
}
After that call above function from anywhere from controller like below -
$super_conn = $this->connectToDb('my_db_name');
$super_conn->open();
$sql = "select * form student where id = 1"; //your query
$super_conn->createCommand($sql)->execute();
thank you..
hope this will help...