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Alvaro Alday
Alvaro Alday

Reputation: 363

Why is Yii2 framework showing a 404 error when creating custom view page?

I'm attempting to create a custom display in yii2 framework using this code in my site controller:

/******/
public function actionChartDisplay()
{
    return $this->render('chartDisplay');
}

for testing purposes I pasted the form name in my actionAbout function as a parameter to the render function in it. It worked with this: 

public function actionAbout()
{
    return $this->render('chartDisplay');
}

But I need to create many custom views in yii2 and this won't be a solution.

This is the error I getenter image description here

I'm curious as to why it is. Since I was following this tutorial and came across this weird behaviour. My 'chartDisplay.php' file is merely a "hello world" that does work with the action about function.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1163

Answers (2)

Alvaro Alday
Alvaro Alday

Reputation: 363

Apparently as @SmartCoder pointed out it was an error on how Yii2 Handles the action functions in its controller however I didn't mark his answer as the solution right away because implementing it resulted in an error. So aside from that I'm posting the way I solved it.

So instead of using chart-display I simply changed it for "charts" like this:

public function actionCharts(){
    return $this->render('charts');
}

Changed the name of my file so it fits to charts.php and it worked.

Upvotes: 0

SmartCoder
SmartCoder

Reputation: 411

in yii2, the controllers and actions with multiple words, that are marked by capital letters are divided by - in your request, so in your case the route would be some/chart-display

Upvotes: 3

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