How to use Yii controller located in folder rather than default `protected/controller`?

Question

In Yii, when access to <app-host>/index.php?r=<mycontroller>/<myaction>, the framework will start to run code in protected/controller/<MyController>Controller.php

I want to that code to be located in another folder, says protected/anotherFolder, while other controllers remain as-is. How to do that?

Regards

why do you need to change the location of controllers folder from Yii built in? — aslingga, Nov 02 '11 at 08:59
As Kor has pointed out, I would like to group the logic into its own folder. A 'logic' involves controller/view/model. A module meets my need. — Nam G VU, Nov 02 '11 at 17:29

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '11 at 13:02

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Open up <app-host>/index.php, edit to

//...
require_once($yii);
$app = Yii::createWebApplication($config);
$app->setControllerPath('protected/anotherFolder');
$app->run();

answered Nov 02 '11 at 13:02

Elvan

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Thank you Elvan. But this will change the all controllers. I need that just for some of them – Nam G VU Nov 02 '11 at 17:30

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '11 at 04:47

Thanks to mdomba on yii forum at this post, I found the answer using CWebApplication::controllerMap - in the loading state of the application we call

Yii::app()->controllerMap['yourControllerName']='path.alias.to.your.controller.file.without.dotPHP';

You can use controllerMap - http://www.yiiframew...ollerMap-detail

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 17 '15 at 13:33

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You can add to config file

'controllerPath' => 'your_new_controller_path',

The same with view path

'viewPath' => 'path_to_template_folder',

edited Mar 17 '15 at 13:33

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answered Mar 05 '14 at 11:23

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Sergi Juanola · Answer 4 · 2011-11-04T10:43:01.277

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If I got you, you want to split the web logic into different "folders", or (in a more yii-ly way) modules. For instance, to have all the administrating stuff into another place and get to this using r=admin/users, for instance

If you have your gii manager activated, go to /index.php?r=gii, and create a module. That's it. You can then create controllers inside protected/modules/<module-name>/controllers/ and call them using that path. Of course, views are also stored inside that

edited Nov 04 '11 at 10:43

answered Nov 02 '11 at 11:15

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You got me well. Though, applying a `module` will change my code structure a lot – Nam G VU Nov 03 '11 at 04:09

How to use Yii controller located in folder rather than default `protected/controller`?

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