I need to create a widget which gets data from the DB,
I found below tutorial, but I can see it has DB calls from the view . Is this good practice?
I need to create a widget which gets data from the DB,
I found below tutorial, but I can see it has DB calls from the view . Is this good practice?
Widget is for only presentation layer… dont write your database access there 
Pleas refer this link
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.view#widget