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Asked: 2026-06-18T01:26:50+00:00

I am a complete Yii newbie so please forgive a simple question. I’ve been

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I am a complete Yii newbie so please forgive a simple question. I’ve been reading up on various posts and can’t find anything that works. All I’m trying to do is setup a Yii site (which I’ve done) and then link to a static page using my Main layout.

Below are the three files I think are relevant:

  • index.php: the view I show on my homepage as content with the main layout
  • terms_of_use.php: the view I’m unsuccessfully trying to get to appear in the main layout
  • main.php: my master layout

Within the footer of the main layout, the link to the static page is:

<a href="index.php?r=site/page&view=terms_of_use">Terms of Use</a>

When I click on it, it generates what I think is the correct url in the brower address bar:

http://localhost/Company/index.php?r=site/page&view=terms_of_use

but what gets shown is the content of index.php, not terms_of_use.php. I’m using the default SiteController. Is there something special about index.php I don’t know about, or am I doing something else dumb? Thanks for any help.

views/site/index.php:

<?php
/* @var $this SiteController */

$this->pageTitle=Yii::app()->name;
?>

<div id="content" class = "clearfix">
    <div class="threeColBlock">
        <div class="padded">
            <h2 class="pageTitle">Heading 1</h2>
                <p>Blurb 1</p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="threeColBlock">
        <div class="padded">
            <h2 class="pageTitle">Heading 2</h2>
            <p>Blurb 2</p>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="threeColBlock">
        <div class="padded">
            <h2 class="pageTitle">Heading 3</h2>
            <p>Blurb 3</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

views/site/pages/terms_of_use.php:

<?php
/* @var $this SiteController */

$this->pageTitle=Yii::app()->name . ' - About';
$this->breadcrumbs=array(
    'About',
);
?>

<div id="content" class = "clearfix">
    <h2 class="pageTitle">Terms of Use</h2>
    <div class = "smallText">
        <p>
            Some legal junk
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

views/layouts/views/main.php:

<?php /* @var $this Controller */ ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="language" content="en" />

    <!-- blueprint CSS framework -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/screen.css" media="screen, projection" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/print.css" media="print" />
    <!--[if lt IE 8]>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/ie.css" media="screen, projection" />
    <![endif]-->

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/main.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/form.css" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/marketing.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo Yii::app()->request->baseUrl; ?>/css/cssmenu.css" media="screen" />

    <title><?php echo CHtml::encode($this->pageTitle); ?></title>
</head>

<body>

    <div id="header"  class="clearfix">
        <div id="logo"><image src="images/logo,56x38,trans(white).gif"></div>
        <div id="logoName">Company</div>
        <div id="topRight">Bla bla bla</b></div>
    </div>

    <!-- Menu -->
    <div id='cssmenu'>
        <ul>
            <li class='active'><a href='dummy.com'><span>home</span></a></li>
            <li class='has-sub'><a href='#'><span>products</span></a>
                <ul>
                    <li><a href='dummy.com'><span>prod1</span></a></li>
                    <li><a href='dummy.com'><span>prod2</span></a></li>
                    <li class='last'><a href='dummy.com'><span>prod3</span></a></li>
                </ul>
            </li>
            <li><a href='dummy.com'><span>about</span></a></li>
            <li class='last'><a href='dummy.com'><span>contact</span></a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>

    <div id="mainImageContainer">
        <div id="mainImage">
            <image src = "images/main_image.jpg">
        </div>
    </div>

    <?php echo $content; ?>

</div><!-- page -->

    <div id="footer">
        Copyright &copy 2011 Company. All rights reserved. | <a href="index.php?r=site/page&view=terms_of_use">Terms of Use</a>
    </div>

</body>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Found it. I had enabled the urlManager in config/main.php. If I change my original link to the following then I get what I want. 

    http://localhost/Company/index.php/site/page/view/terms_of_use
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