Aliases

Aliases

Aliases are used to represent file paths or URLs so that you don't have to hard-code absolute paths or URLs in your project. An alias must start with the @ character to be differentiated from normal file paths and URLs. Alias defined without leading @ will be prefixed with @ character.

Yii has many pre-defined aliases already available. For example, the alias @yii represents the installation path of the Yii framework; @web represents the base URL for the currently running Web application.

Defining Aliases

You can define an alias for a file p