Question

Ok I have a controller class in Yii that I want to use a different view folder aside from using its default view folder.

The natural behavior is when a $this->render("<view file>"); you would use the following to navigate your view file in the project…

“//” navigates project default view folder

“/” navigates current theme view folder

or do not use anything to select a view automatically in the
controller’s default view folder

but my problem is i’m not rendering a view file but a STATIC PAGE that resides in /pages folder of a certain view folder. The static page I want to navigate is a static page the resides in my current theme folder views but the default is the controller navigates the static page inside the /protected/view folder

I tried also this override to modify the controller’s view folder. I put this code in my controller that I want to render static pages in a theme folder

public function init(){
    $this->layout = "//layouts/script";
    $this->viewPath = "/js";
}

but the problem is the viewPath is readOnly variable.

Now my question is how I can render static pages that resides in my current theme’s view folders?

NOTE: please if you don’t understand my question, please don’t down vote. I’m open to change and explain my problem for you as possible as I can

Answer 1

When you’re overriding the actions method in your SiteController, somehow, you need to change the CViewAction‘s basePath property. It defaults to pages, as the documentation says.

Could you try something like this?

 public function actions()
 {
     return array(
        'page'=>array(
            'class'=>'CViewAction',
            'basePath'=>'path/to/your/theme/folder'
        ),
     );
 }