yii2 redirect in controller action does not work?

Question

I am posting a form to /user/save in order to save user data. The problem occurs when i try to redirect the user if the $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] is NOT 'post'.

My user controller code

namespace app\controllers;
use Yii;
use yii\web\Controller;
use app\models\MyUser;

class UserController extends Controller {

public function actionSave() {

    if(!Yii::$app->request->getIsPost()) {
       $this->redirect('/user/index',302);
       exit(0);
   }

   //do something to save user submitted data       
}

}//~CLASS

The is no way to get the redirection to work. Although !Yii::$app->request->getIsPost() is false the call to $this->redirect does nothing!

Any help appreciated.

Dency G B · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-22T12:46:28.613

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In Yii2 we need to return() the result from the action.I think you need to add a return in front of your redirect.

  return $this->redirect(['user/index']);

edited May 22 '17 at 12:46

answered May 28 '14 at 14:38

Dency G B

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Return to function is not necessary for redirect. If you use exit after redirect then it will not work. What is happening don't know – Yatin Mistry Dec 23 '15 at 13:51
Below there is one answer if you are using inside before action..." If you are trying to do redirect in beforeAction() you should use send() method" `return $this->redirect('/some/url',302)->send();` – Felipe Costa Oct 06 '17 at 09:11

score 33 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 22 '16 at 06:35

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If you are trying to do redirect in beforeAction() you should use send() method

 return $this->redirect('/some/url',302)->send();

answered Jul 22 '16 at 06:35

Denhell

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this should be the selected answer – shyam sasi May 17 '17 at 06:36

lalithkumar · Answer 3 · 2017-06-06T06:54:43.907

You can redirect by this method also:

return Yii::$app->response->redirect(['user/index', 'id' => 10]);

If you want to send the Header information immediately use with send().This method adds a Location header to the current response.

return Yii::$app->response->redirect(['user/index', 'id' => 10])->send();

If you want the complete URL then use like Url::to(['user/index', 'id' => 302]) with the header of use yii\helpers\Url;.

For more information check Here. Hope this will help someone.

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 26 '16 at 12:32

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I struggled with redirect not working for very long, none of what mentioned above was working for me, until I tried this:

Change:

return $this->redirect('site/secure');

to:

return $this->redirect(['site/secure']);

In other words, needed to enclose it within [] brackets! I am using PHP 7, might be the reason why?

edited Oct 26 '16 at 12:32

Petter Friberg

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answered Oct 26 '16 at 12:29

Perry J

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enclosing within `[]` brackets is yii2 standard. – Nitin Pund Oct 26 '16 at 12:45
Yes, and that's what array() does, I see now! – Perry J Oct 26 '16 at 13:01
Still, I am confused why not even my latest Yii2 tutorial is using neither ['text'] or array('text') on the redirect('text') command. – Perry J Oct 27 '16 at 10:17
Thank you, it was my problem – Farshid Mar 10 '17 at 10:04

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 26 '16 at 07:54

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Redirects the browser to the specified URL.

This method adds a "Location" header to the current response. Note that it does not send out the header until send() is called. In a controller action you may use this method as follows:

return Yii::$app->getResponse()->redirect($url);

In other places, if you want to send out the "Location" header immediately, you should use the following code:

Yii::$app->getResponse()->redirect($url)->send();
return;

answered Sep 26 '16 at 07:54

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FYI, refer this link : http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-web-response.html#redirect()-detail – Harshada Chheda Sep 26 '16 at 07:54

score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 15 '15 at 11:53

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here is another way to do this

if(!Yii::$app->request->getIsPost()) {
    return Yii::$app->getResponse()->redirect(array('/user/index',302));
}

edited Jul 15 '15 at 11:53

Glorfindel

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answered Jul 15 '15 at 07:58

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thanks but please use url::to() class to give better url..best regards – moein kh Nov 30 '15 at 20:51

MH2K9 · Answer 7 · 2014-05-28T08:08:50.823

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try by this

if(!Yii::$app->request->getIsPost()) 
{
  Yii::$app->response->redirect(array('user/index','id'=>302));
    exit(0);
}

edited May 28 '14 at 08:08

answered May 27 '14 at 15:45

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You seem to be referring to YII v.1.X code. Is this Yii v.1.X code? – Andreas May 27 '14 at 15:55

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Apr 02 '17 at 15:50

Don't use exit(0); That's bad practice at the best of times. Use Yii::$app->end();

So your code would look like

$this->redirect(['index'], 302);
Yii::$app->end();

That said though the actual problem was stopping POST requests, this is the wrong solution to that problem (although it does work). To stop POST requests you need to use access control.

public function behaviors()
{
    return [
        'access' => [
            'class' => \yii\filters\AccessControl::className(),
            'only' => ['create', 'update'],
            'rules' => [
                // deny all POST requests
                [
                    'allow' => false,
                    'verbs' => ['POST']
                ],
                // allow authenticated users
                [
                    'allow' => true,
                    'roles' => ['@'],
                ],
                // everything else is denied
            ],
        ],
    ];
}

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 26 '23 at 08:04

if you use beforeAction then try this :

public function beforeAction($act){
  if($act->actionMethod=="actionSomeaction"){
     if(!$somecondition){
        $act->actionMethod="actionIndex"; //this will redirect to index page
     }
  }
  return parent::beforeAction($act);
}

yii2 redirect in controller action does not work?

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