All websites contain static pages, whose content is static.
To create a static page in a common way, we need to:
Create a function (
action) to execute action inControllerCreate a view for static content
Append the following action to Controller:
public function actionInfo()
{
return $this->render('info');
}Then, create a view in views/controller/action-name.php. This procedure is simple but too long and redundant.
Yii2 provides a quick alternative, adding static pages to the actions() method of Controller as follows:
public function actions()
{
return [
'pages' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\ViewAction',
],
];
}With this simple declaration, we can put all static content under views/controllerName/pages.
Finally, we can point to the URL with route controller_name/page and the view parameter with the name of a view file such as http://hostname/basic/web/index.php?r=controllerName/pages&view=name_of_view.