What do you think of a small modification of CController.render method to accept array of views instead of single view. If array is passed, than the method would renderPartial each view using the same data and would pass variables $content1, $content2, etc. into layout.
For example.
Layout:
<table>
<tr><td>LEFT</td><td><?php echo $content1; ?></td><td>RIGHT</td></tr>
<tr><td>LEFT</td><td><?php echo $content2; ?></td><td>RIGHT</td></tr>
</table>
Action in controller:
$this->render(array('navigator', 'grid'));
CController.render:
public function render($view,$data=null,$return=false)
{
$self = $this;
$renderPartial = function($v) use ($self, $data) {
return $self->renderPartial($v,$data,true);
};
$renderedViews = array_map($renderPartial, is_array($view) ? $view : array($view));
if(($layoutFile=$this->getLayoutFile($this->layout))!==false)
{
if (count($renderedViews) == 1)
{
$output = $this->renderFile($layoutFile, array('content'=>current($renderedViews)), true);
}
else
{
$indices = array_keys($renderedViews);
$keys = array_map(function($index) {return "content".($index+1);}, $indices);
$params = array_combine($keys, array_values($renderedViews));
$output = $this->renderFile($layoutFile, $params, true);
}
}
else
{
$output = array_reduce($renderedViews, function($a, $x) {return $a.$x;});
}
$output=$this->processOutput($output);
if($return)
return $output;
else
echo $output;
}
}
I’ll try it… But with this method you will update the entire widget, not a specified view in the widget, a detail I think.