render a view from another controller, yii

Question

The controller:

controllers
|-FooController.php
|-BarController.php

The views:

view
|-foo|
|    |-index.php
|    |-error.php
|
|-bar|
     |-index.php

How to render the error.php view with an action of the bar controller? I have tried:

$this->render('foo/error');

But it doesn't work.

Silicium

try $this->render('/foo/error') – Pellagra

Answer 1

try this

$this->render('//foo/error');

Myers

How this is handled in Yii2 is documented here: yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-structure-views.html#named-views – Layne

I confirm this works in Yii2, in case you don't want to read the doc – Superfuse

Answer 2

If you don't echo it, you will get a blank page. The correct way is

<?=
   $this->render('//foo/error');
?>

or

<?php
     echo $this->render('//foo/error');
?> 

This also works for Yii2

Threadgill

In Yii2 it's also working with a single / at the beginning, like: <?= $this->render('/foo/error') ?> – Flabby