Folks, I promise I’ve searched everywhere for an answer and I can’t find one.
Here’s the vibe:
I have created a module. It’s an incredibly simple module. It has a method (perhaps you prefer the word ‘Action’) called hello(). When called, hello just echoes the words “hello world” to the screen, using echo “hello world”;
Is there a way that I can call this module - and specifically the hello() action - from a file in my main views folder?
This will be on a module for eventually posting comments on a webpage.
On Codeigniter this would be easily achieved by going into the view file and saying:
echo Modules::run(‘moduleName/hello’); //calls a module and gets the module to say ‘hello world’
What if you want your widget to do some kind of database query? Let say, for example, you want to add a comments section to the bottom of a page (very common). This widget would require two features:
a means of querying the db and looping through the results - displaying all of the comments on the page.
a textarea at the top of the page which allows users to submit a new comment
I’m not asking you to write the code for me but I would be very grateful if you could just outline the general concepts/stategies for making that happen.
Thanks for that. I’m excited to discover that what I’m trying to achieve may be possible. Unfortunately, there’s a fly in the ointment. I’m getting a syntax error.
