Creating Common Layout

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Here is a simplified html of my template




<div class="left">

    //some static content

</div>

<div class="right">

     //main content

</div>

For all ajax request i just want to load the content inside “right” but for all others it’s the whole thing. The left content is same in most cases but changes in a few cases. So Is there a way i can override a block in the layout without using a variable to hold html something using BeginContent.

To make myself clear

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[*]For ajax requests i only render the view with ajax layout

[*]For non ajax requests i render main template with view

[*]For a few non ajax requests i render main template with view but i want a few changes in the main template content.

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PS: I am aware of "renderPartial" and request->isAjaxRequest. My concern is the conetnt part

2

Hi, let me try to give some response …

You can set up multiple layouts in Yii … by default in the protected/views/layouts/ folder you will find column1.php and column2.php. In your controller you can change the layout that is being used as follows:




  public $layout='//layouts/layoutxxx';

where layoutxxx is a layout you created

So, if you want to have 2 columns for example and have the right column load via ajax you could try something as follows (in layoutxxx.php):




<?php $this->beginContent('application.views.layouts.main'); ?>

<div class="span-5 last">

    <div id="sidebar">

        <?php $this->renderPartial('/admin/sidebar');?>

    </div><!-- sidebar -->

</div>

<div class="span-19">

	<div id="content">

		<!--?php echo $content; ?-->

        <?php

          $data = array();

          $data["content"] = $content;

          $this->renderPartial('/layouts/column1', $data); ?>


    </div><!-- content -->

</div>

<?php $this->endContent(); ?>