yii widget render partial view of another controller

Question

I need to create universal dialog widget for different modules in my yii-powered project, with form which will be auto serialized and passed to controller action for add/update operations.

Is it a good practice if I call render partial method in overloaded run() or init() method of my widget and pass him custom view path with html form (this form will be shown in modal dialog window after dialog-btn click action accordingly)?

My widget path:

/protected/components/widgets/DialogFormWidget.php

My forms path:

/protected/modules/module/controller/views/forms/submittable_html_form.php

Developerium · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-09 09:18:45Z

5

go with

 $this->renderPartial('application.modules.controllers.views.forms.submittable_html_form');

UPDATE :

in above code, $this refers to the controller, if you want to use controllers renderPartial from inside a widget, you have to access it like $this->controller->renderPartial (

edited Jul 9, 2014 at 9:18

answered Jul 9, 2014 at 6:54

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itnelo Over a year ago

Thanks @tinybyte, but using this code I get error: {class} and its behaviors do not have a method or closure named {name}. may be another way?

ineersa Over a year ago

@tinybyte is right, just use full alias, and don't just copy - paste code, some error is covered here, try to find.

itnelo Over a year ago

$this->controller->renderPartial , now it works. Thanks! (yes, I changed path to correct for my environment, the problem was not in that, but I really can't use $this->renderPartial from widget methods directly... I use 1.1.14

benomatis Over a year ago

what about Yii::app()->controller->renderPartial...?

zmilan · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-10 09:42:40Z

Even you can use path to your view file to access it from other controller ($this->renderPartial('application.views.controller.view', []) , or path to any place where your view live on system), this is not good solution. Better solution is to create Yii widget so u can easy call it from all places because its controller independent. You will have also lot of benefits since with Yii widgets u have option to send some widget configuration parameters that can be used to customize widget and even load different views/style based on that parameters. Also you will have good place for custom functions that can help to add some business logic to your view and similar. You can find some start point for this here (http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.view)

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