Creating static pages

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 in Controller
• Create 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.

Example...