Question

I am creating a rest api using yii framework so the basic output format would be json….

I want all actions in a controller to have header content-type as ‘application-json’.

I tried to put it in beforeFilter function in the controller but it didn’t work.

Can any one help me out…

Answer 1

Create an init() function in the Controller class (protected/components/Controller.php). This will be called when any Controller/Action is called. Eg:

public function init(){
    if ($this->id == 1){
        // perform controller specific function
    }
}

The $this->id returns the controller id. You must obviously replace the 1 in the code above with the relevant controller id for the controller you want the function to take place with