I have a static html website that would like to integrate it with one action of a Yii project (i.e. /orders.html and /controllers/orderController::actionIndex). They were developed separately and each have its own visual design and css styles.
What are my options?
I think I could serve the whole website as a static set of pages of the yii project, is there another way?
Hi,
May be you can make use of theming - http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-output-theming.html
Maybe use the yii project as a REST API and just call the actions from the static website using jQuery or something similar
Maybe run them side-by-side and divide the traffic via .htaccess?
I suppose this is the option I stated.
The app is already REST so we are halfway there, but given that they both will reside on the same server, this approach seems a bit overwork and too uncoupled.
Can you explain this further? I think it implies some mod rewrite.
Let me explain a bit more.
The website path is intended to be: /
The yii project is intended to be: /project
The project is basically a restricted access admin panel that handles customer orders, but it needs to serve a "public page" where customers can submit orders (intended path to be /orders.html).
Thanks for your replies. I’m still looking into the best option for this.
Yes, it does. Basically you would redirect requests from "/orders.html" to whatever the appropriate Yii route in "/project" is.
You’ll find a lot about redirection via htaccess on your favourite search engine. Be prepared though that it is a bit of a world of pain - works well once you got it running though.
So i think in this approach i would use theming for /project/index.php?r=customer/orders
Could css be reused from /css (not project/web/css)?
What about the document root? In a basic template it would normally it would point to /project/web but in this case we still have the static site is in /
Not sure if you really need theming - maybe just a different layout?
Yes, of course.
Where do you see the problem?
Do you have experience with .htaccess? If not, play around with it a bit - gives you an idea of how it works.
layouts seems cool
I was about to say that unless i created a subdomain for the yii project like project.example.com, there would only be one document root pointing to / where the static site is being served. And that the project files would be exposed in /project/web.
Until i remembered this http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/799/yii2-app-advanced-on-single-domain-apache-nginx/ i have used symlinks before, so i think they’ll do.
Not recently, but I shouldn’t have major issues once i put my hands on it.
Very valuable information Sir Patrick Jones. Now I feel more confident of what’s ahead of me.