How to call another controller action method

Archives Yii 1.0.x Discussions
1

Hai to all,

I have two controller and action

EventController,


   -addevent(this is action).


   -viewevent(this is another action).


CommentController


    -addcomment(this is action).


    -viewcomment(this is another action).

My question is, how can i call viewevent action inside on viewcomment action.

2

You cannot crosscall actions, but you can always have views nested. By calling CController::renderPartial, you can always embed viewevents’ views in your main action’s view files.

3

Hai pestaa,

Thanks for your reply.

please tell briefly, am not understand. how to call another controller function.

4

You can’t call another function from different controller. (It is strongly recommended to create a workaround in order to create your code clean.)

As I understand your problem, you want to display events even when comments are shown.

Instead of dealing with numerous actions during a single request, it is better to embed other views.

In your comments’ view files you can do (as far as I know this works; correction, if needed, is appreciated):




<?php

echo $this->renderPartial('../event/viewEvents', array('data'=>...));

?>

Edit this line of code so that it suits your environment (different view name, passed variables, etc.)

Is it clear now?

5

As far as I understand with renderPartial we include a view and we can pass variables to it. But let’s have the following scenario:

I have a site with several pages: home, about me, contacts. And in "home" and "about me" I want to show a section with the latest news. This section (news) has no connection with the data of "home" and "about me" and it should be separated in a different controller/view and it should be included within the "home"/"about me" views. But how do I do that if I cannot call another action?

I’m a newbie to this framework so please be kind to me :)

6

@Nikolay Kolev

this question is asked all the time. I believe what you need is widget. Look up widgets in the docs

7

Is it possible to apply access control (accessRules) for the widget?

Thanks.