Displaying static pages with CViewAction

If you have a few static pages and aren't going to change them very frequently, then it's not worth querying the database and implementing page management for them.

Getting ready

Set up a new application using yiic webapp.

How to do it...

1. We just need to connect CViewAction to our controller.

   class SiteController extends CController
   {
      function actions()
      {
         return array(
            'page'=>array(
               'class'=>'CViewAction',
           ),
         );
      }
   }

2. Now, put your pages into protected/views/site/pages, and name them about.php and contact.php.

3. Now, you can try your pages by typing in the URL http://example.com/index.php?r=site/page&view=contact.

4. Alternatively, you can type in the URL http://example.com/site/page/view/about, if you have configured clean URLs with a path format.

How it works...

We connect the external action named CViewAction that simply tries to find a view named the same as the $_GET parameter supplied. If it is there...