Loading Another Widget In Sidebar (With Ajax)

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have a site with main content area and a sidebar.

I wonder, how can I make the following behavior:

In the sidebar is a list of other widgets.

What is the best method to unload the listWidget and load the selectedWidget to the sidebar, when the user clicks one link in the listWidget?

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Hi heal,

If I understand correctly your question, you can use the following (with jQuery):

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[*]Bind a click event to the items in the list.

[*]When the event fires, you make an AJAX request to the route of the corresponding selected widget (or a common route with a parameter indicating the widget).

[*]The action will return the HTML for the widget only.

[*]You receive this data on the success callback function and insert it in a holder element in your document.

[*]Hide the widget list.

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3

Thank You, Rodrigo!

I thought it can be made with renderPartial, or some simpler way, but this is good for me also.

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Yes, you can use CController::renderPartial!