Alternative to CDetailView

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hello :slight_smile:

The view for one of models uses the $this->widget(‘zii.widgets.CDetailView’ approach to show an individual record. I wasn’t too keen on layout of this with its tables so I decided to code it directly into the HTML like so:




...

<div class="description">

<p><?php echo $model->description; ?></p>

</div>

...

Is there anything wrong with this approach? Does the widgit provide any security benefits that my way doesn’t?

Thanks

Jonny

2

Not really it just provides ease of use in that you don’t have to write lots of markup. Although you could have created a component to inherit the CDetailView and given it a custom name and created the custom markup in there. That way you could reuse it without lots of code duplication.

3

Thanks for that Jaggi, yeah I didn’t think of that, I’ll have a little bash at knocking up something to make it a bit a bit friendlier.

Thanks :slight_smile:

4

I rarely use CDetailView so I think your approach is fine. :)

5

Hi Jaggi,

I am new to Yii. Can you please give pointers as to how this component could be created?

Thank you!

6

Yeh CDetailView is pretty useless unless your doing a CMS. I think the approach I am going to take is to extend CDetailView and reuse that in future projects. Basically just try to use as much yii built in functionality as I can!!