[dckurushin]

/**
	 * the variables for the view render
	 * @var array
	 */
public $_params = array();
/**
	 * the assign method
	 * @param string $key
	 * @param mixed $value
	 */
	public function assign($key, $value){
		$this->_params[$key] = $value;
	}
	
	/**
	 * call template render, with the params array we created in the life cycle
	 * @param string $tpl
	 */
	public function render($tpl = 'index'){
		parent::render($tpl, $this->_params);
	}

example of usage in controller:

$this->assign('greetings', 'Yo man!');
$this->assign('model', $model);
$this->render('login');

[samdark]

What's the benefit of having such inconsisting assignments all over the place instead of just one assignment?

[dckurushin]

samdark, on 24 August 2011 - 10:50 AM, said:

What's the benefit of having such inconsisting assignments all over the place instead of just one assignment?

The main benefit is that it is more confortable...

I could of course just follow the yii way and do

$data = array();

...
...

$data['a'] = ...


..
..
..
$data['b'] = ...

render('index', $data);

But the assign way looks more elegant and user friendly in my opinion...

Or maybe this is just my Smarty days spoiled me


And almost in all frameworks there is this assign...
people adapted to it(привычка)...

like ZF

[jacmoe]

What's so wrong with

$this->render('view', array('model' => $model, 'someVar' => $someVar));

[Dana]

/agree Jacmoe -- I think it's much simpler and elegant the way it is currently.

[jacmoe]

Forgot to remember 'compact' :

$this->render('view', compact('model', 'someVar'));

[mbi]

jacmoe, on 25 August 2011 - 12:24 PM, said:

What's so wrong with

$this->render('view', array('model' => $model, 'someVar' => $someVar));

$this->render('view', compact('model', 'someVar'));

[jacmoe]

I beat you to it by six minutes!

[mbi]

jacmoe, on 25 August 2011 - 01:04 PM, said:

I beat you to it by six minutes!

weird

[jacmoe]

Well, to be honest: I had to look it up, because I haven't used it since I used CakePHP..
I will definitely be using it now, since I am a really lazy programmer.
Too bad I forgot about it.

The bottom line is that it simply doesn't get less verbose than that.

[samdark]

After using Smarty long-long time ago I wanted this as well. Later Yii-way saved me a lot of time when reviewing existing code. You can tell what was passed to the view very fast by looking at just a single place.

[jacmoe]

Maybe you could use 'compact' for the CRUD generator instead of regular assoc array syntax?
That would make it even neater, and prevent feature suggestions such as this.

samdark, on 25 August 2011 - 02:03 PM, said:

Later Yii-way saved me a lot of time when reviewing existing code. You can tell what was passed to the view very fast by looking at just a single place.

I also like that it's passed explicitly in one place - instead of scattered.

[dckurushin]

Nice function "compact", don't knew it even exist

[Maurizio Domba]

I personally don't like the compact...

because it's just another function call... could be it's very fast... but again it's a call to a function... it needs to process the parameters and build an array to be returned... so in the end - a bit slower code

[dckurushin]

mdomba, on 26 August 2011 - 01:56 AM, said:

I personally don't like the compact...

because it's just another function call... could be it's very fast... but again it's a call to a function... it needs to process the parameters and build an array to be returned... so in the end - a bit slower code

if speed that important, why to use Yii at all?
When you use a framework, you get what you need, and a lot of code that you will never use

One call of simple active record instance is like doing 10000 times compact

[jacmoe]

It's great that the Yii team is performance oriented.

However, I trust the PHP team more than I trust myself, so I don't think 'compact' will be slower than any of my own functions.
That function has had huge amount of eyeballs upon it.

[tri]

I think the current format of the render() call should be preferred since it will give a hint that key/value doesn't have to be the same. Perhaps the possible compact() call could be mentioned in a comment?

/Tommy

[ekerazha]

Comparatively, compact(mt_rand()) is about 130% faster than hash('sha256', mt_rand())

[kernel]

jacmoe, on 25 August 2011 - 12:51 PM, said:

Forgot to remember 'compact' :

$this->render('view', compact('model', 'someVar'));

That's good