Creating a custom widget to create a model

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I’m trying to create a widget to create a new model. It works okay so far, but I’m not sure if it is the right approach. I am not sure if the creation of the new model should happen in init() or run() or somewhere else (e.g. the Model itself).

Here’s what I have.




namespace frontend\components;


use Yii;

use yii\base\Widget;

use yii\helpers\Html;

use app\models\MessageBump;

class MessageBump extends Widget

{


    public function init()

    {

        parent::init();

        $model = new MessageBump();

        if (Yii::$app->request->isPost) {

            $model->item_id = Yii::$app->getRequest()->getQueryParam('id');

            if ($model->save()) {

                Yii::$app->session->setFlash('success', 'Bumped the user with a message!');

            }

        }

    }


    public function run()

    {

        $model = new MessageBump();

        return $this->render('_MessageBump', [

            'model' => $model,

        ]);

    }

}

Is there a better alternative to do this?