在另一个控制器中调用静态方法

Question

I want to call a static method in another controller to perform some global utility-like operations (update a file, for example). But I got a error message:

include(AnotherController.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

at /yii/framework/YiiBase.php(421) :

include($className.'.php');

Answer 1

Controllers are not autoloaded by Yii. Add the following to your configuration file:

// autoloading model and component classes
'import'=>array(
    'application.controllers.*',
    ...
),

Or, alternatively, just before you call a given controller, add the following line:

Yii::import('application.controllers.AnotherController');