In this article i will show you “how to use some class(Html & Url) in yii2” to get relative and absolute URL.
*note :
My url yii2 located in http://localhost/yii2_advanced/
directory in /var/ww/html/yii2_advanced
index.php (located in frontend/views/test_url/)
<?php
use yii\helpers\Html;
use yii\helpers\Url;
/**
* A HREF
*/
// <a href='site/index'>Text</a>
echo Html::a('Text', 'site/index');
// <a href='/yii2_advanced/frontend/web/index.php?r=controller/action'>E</a>
echo Html::a('E', ['/controller/action']);
/**
* URL
*/
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web
echo Yii::getAlias('@web');
// /var/www/html/yii2_advanced/frontend
echo Yii::getAlias('@app');
// /var/www/html/yii2_advanced/frontend/runtime
echo Yii::getAlias('@runtime');
// /var/www/html/yii2_advanced/vendor
echo Yii::getAlias('@vendor');
// /var/www/html/yii2_advanced/vendor/npm
echo Yii::getAlias('@npm');
// /var/www/html/yii2_advanced/vendor/bower
echo Yii::getAlias('@bower');
// /var/www/html/yii2_advanced/vendor/yiisoft/yii2
echo Yii::getAlias('@yii');
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web/index.php?r=test_url/index
echo Url::current();
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web
echo Url::base();
// http://localhost/yii2_advanced/frontend/web
echo Url::base(true);
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web
echo Url::base(false);
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web/index.php?r=site/index
echo Url::to(['site/index']);
// current url
// yii2_advanced/frontend/web/index.php?r=test_url/index
echo Url::to();
// images/photo.jpg
echo Url::to('images/photo.jpg');
// http://localhost/yii2_advanced/frontend/web/images/photo.jpg
echo Url::to('@web/images/photo.jpg', true);
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web/images/photo.jpg
echo Url::to('@web/images/photo.jpg', false);
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web/index.php?r=site/index&id=2#name
echo Url::to(['site/index', 'id' => '2', '#' => 'name']);
// /yii2_advanced/frontend/web/index.php?r=book
Yii::setAlias('@Yourcontroller', '/book');
echo Url::to(['@Yourcontroller']);
?>
reference :
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-concept-aliases.html
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-helpers-baseurl.html
