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Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello,

I am very new the Yii, so my question is of the probably of the simple kind:

Basically I want to know how i can create a list of news on my frontpage. My site controller looks like this:


$criteria = new CDbCriteria(array(

                'order' => 'date DESC',

                ));


                $conditions = array();

                $conditions[] = 'cat=:cat';

                $conditions[] = 'expires_time>:expires_time';

                $criteria->condition = implode(' AND ', $conditions);

                $criteria->params=array(':cat' => $cat['cat'], ':expires_time' => time(),);


                $dataProvider=new CActiveDataProvider('News', array( 'criteria' => $criteria, 'pagination' => false ));


                $this->render('index',array('dataProvider' => $dataProvider,));

This renders the index file in my site view

My index file looks like the following:


<div id="content">

        <div class="items">


        <?

                $this->widget('zii.widgets.CListView', array('dataProvider'=>$dataProvider, 'itemView'=>'_view', 'summaryText' =>false ));

        ?>


        </div><!-- div class items -->

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

But I would like to use the itemview of my news mvc instead. I hope it makes sense

Thanks in advance

2

You can simply create a new view file in the views/controllerId/ folder named as you wish, for example _newsMVC.

Then:


 $this->widget('zii.widgets.CListView', array('dataProvider'=>$dataProvider, 'itemView'=>'_newsMVC', 'summaryText' =>false ));

P.s: welcome to the forum

3

Hi zaccaria and everone else reading,

Thanks for you reply!!

If my view/index.php is in the site folder, can I on some way use an itemView-template from another controllerid folder?

My listview in views/site/index.php


$this->widget('zii.widgets.CListView', array('dataProvider'=>$dataProvider, 'itemView'=>'news', 'summaryText' =>false ));

This call needs my news.php to be placed in views/site/ also.

Or can I tell my render function in SiteController.php to use an index.php file i another controllerid folder?

My call to render in SiteController.php (frontpage):


$this->render('index',array('dataProvider' => $dataProvider,));

Or would this break the principles in mvc and the framework.

Thanks again

/Mads

4

Don’t know if it breaks MVC but…


$this->render('controllerid/index',array('dataProvider' => $dataProvider,));

or


$this->render('//controllerid/index',array('dataProvider' => $dataProvider,));
5

jkofsky solution works, but use renderPartial

ciao