CAction vs CInlineAction

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Some one can explain the difference?

Looked at the source code

CInlineAction has




public function run()

	{

		$method='action'.$this->getId();

		$this->getController()->$method();

	}

What does it means?

It looks like it invokes controllers action, so what is the point?

Dont understand it’s purpose and when I can benefit from it

2

This is what I recall (you may look into the source code to verify at least the above code snippet is pretty obvious):

CInlineAction is used to run an inline action declared in the controller class. CAction is used for an action class. Similar for validators.

/Tommy

3

As it looks like me it is useful only if I want to reuse some action.

4

Here is the one and only place it is instantiated.

/Tommy