Using the controller context in a view
by Alexander Makarov
Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Yii Application Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Under the Hood
- 2. Router, Controller, and Views
- Introduction
- Configuring URL rules
- Generating URLs by path
- Using regular expressions in URL rules
- Creating URL rules for static pages
- Providing your own URL rules at runtime
- Using a base controller
- Using external actions
- Displaying static pages with CViewAction
- Using flash messages
- Using the controller context in a view
- Reusing views with partials
- Using clips
- Using decorators
- Defining multiple layouts
- Paginating and sorting data
- 3. AJAX and jQuery
- 4. Working with Forms
- 5. Testing Your Application
- 6. Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks
- Introduction
- Getting data from a database
- Defining and using multiple DB connections
- Using scopes to get models for different languages
- Processing model fields with AR event-like methods
- Applying markdown and HTML
- Highlighting code with Yii
- Automating timestamps
- Setting up an author automatically
- Implementing single table inheritance
- Using CDbCriteria
- 7. Using Zii Components
- 8. Extending Yii
- 9. Error Handling, Debugging, and Logging
- 10. Security
- 11. Performance Tuning
- 12. Using External Code
- 13. Deployment
- Index
Yii views are pretty powerful and have many features. One of them is that you can use controller context in a view. So, let's try it.
- Create a controller as follows:
class WebsiteController extends CController { function actionIndex() { $this->pageTitle = 'Controller context test'; $this->render('index'), } function hello() { if(!empty($_GET['name'])) echo 'Hello, '.$_GET['name'].'!'; } } - Now, we will create a view showing what we can do:
<h1><?php echo $this->pageTitle?></h1> <p>Hello call. <?php $this->hello()?></p> <?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CMenu',array( 'items'=>array( array('label'=>'Home', 'url'=>array('index')), array('label'=>'Yiiframework home', 'url'=>'http://yiiframework.ru/'), ), ))?> - In order to test it you can follow
/index.php?r=website/index.
We are using $this in a view to refer to a currently running controller. When doing it, we can call a controller method and access its properties. The most useful property is pageTitle, which refers to the current page title. There are many built-in methods that are extremely useful in views such as renderPartials and widget.
The following URL contains API documentation for CController where you can get a good list of methods you can use in your view:
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