Read view from database?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi all,

I have some views that I would like to store in the database and read in as required - all the render functions seem to read in the view from a file-system.

Can anyone shed some light on how I may parse in PHP code from a variable? I’ve looked at renderFile and renderInternal in the CBaseController.php class, but it’s beyond my knowledge.

Thanks,

Dan

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You can do with eval.

Take a look at the code of renderInternal, it can help you in devloping your ‘renderViewFromDatabase’.

You have just to change this require with eval

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Wow, yes you’re right. I basically just need to eval() the view “file”, and perhaps capture the output like they do in the renderInternal function. Brilliant, I’ll give it a go tonight.

Much easier than I was expecting. Thanks! :)