dropDownList Data

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi all,

I need your help once more :)

In multiple views of my application (register/edit/search) I need several dropdowns with colors and sizes. And I would like to reuse the data array I create. They don’t come from a database.

But I’m not sure on which is the best way to access these arrays:

  • call a method of my controller from the view which returns the array

  • call the method in my controller and assign it to the view

  • use a widget

  • use a partial

  • others?

To maintain the MVC pattern I probably should assign those in my controller. But this means I need to assign 5-10 arrays to my view on every action I need them.

And if I request them from the view, would this be ok?


	public function getEyeColors()

	{

		return array(

			false => 'Bitte wählen...',

			'brown' => 'brown',

			'green' => 'green',

		);	

	}

What’s best practice, what do you use?

Regards,

ycast

2

The purpose of MVC is to help you write reusable and maintainable code. Don’t hesitate to break the rules when it results in even more reusable and maintainable code :)

It would be OK.