Question

I’m new to Yii. I have a controller like this:

<?php

class EventsController extends Controller
{
    public function actionIndex()
    {
        $this->render('index');
    }
}

How can i make the following url render the correct view. eg.

localhost/events/intaglio -> $this->render('intaglio');
localhost/events/burrito-> $this->render('burrito');
localhost/events/jerrito -> $this->render('jerrito');

Worse case, I’ll have to have separate actions for each

public function actionIntagio {...}
public function actionBurrito {...}
public function actionJerrito {...}

Is there a smarter way of doing this?

Answer 1

Setup URL rules (in protected/config/main.php) to handle those URL’s dynamically, eg:

events/<event_name:.+> => events/myaction

This points any URL with events/whatever to the Controller/Action events/myaction. You can then access the event_name portion of the URL with a $_GET variable, eg:

echo $_GET['event_name'];