Yii2 redirect component

Component for convenient URL redirects in Yii2.

Features

• All redirects are stored in the DB
• Fast speed
• Easy installation and usage

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require pendalf89/yii2-redirect

or add

"pendalf89/yii2-redirect": "^1.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Create table in your database (MySQL, Postgres etc.)

CREATE TABLE `redirect` (
    `source` varchar(512) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci NOT NULL,
    `target` varchar(512) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci NOT NULL,
    `created_at` datetime NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (`source`) USING BTREE,
    KEY `created_at` (`created_at`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_general_ci;

Configuration:

'on beforeRequest' => function() {
    Yii::$app->redirect->run();
},
'components' => [
    'redirect' => 'pendalf89\redirect\Redirect',
],

Installation done.

Usage

Just add your urls to DB:

Yii::$app->redirect->add('https://example.com/from/', 'https://example.com/to/');

After that the redirects will work.