PJAX Example Question

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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I’m really new to Yii and MVC, so I have a very basic question.

In http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/772/pjax-on-activeform-and-gridview-yii2/ there are two views - index.php and _form.php

What benefit is there to pulling the Create logic into a different form?

Being inexperienced, the only things I can think of is that it allows the create form logic to be used in multiple places, and provides easy to segregate logic in case one wanted to make the create form accessible only to authorized users.

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The befit to the _form.php is that it can be used multiple places (controller>actionCreate / controller > actionUpdate) without writing the form code twice.

Since in the case above is for the same model information the fields would be the same making the update and create form the same.

Sometimes this is not useful but overall it reduces the programming load on the programmers which is useful.

This also has nothing to do with Pjax. Pjax is for use with ajax and updating information client side vs php server-side

Pjax Docs

Also, the example has nothing to do with access control, In Yii and Yii2 (as well as in general) this is controlled by some sort of RBAC (module, extension, plugin, ext, or built in feature in most frameworks (Yii included)). In Yii and Yii2 you would do this in the controller under the access section


public function behaviors() {

    	return [

        	'access' => [

            	'class' => AccessControl::className(),

            	'only' => ['logout', 'signup'],

            	'rules' => [

                	[

                    	'actions' => ['signup'],

                    	'allow' => true,

                    	'roles' => ['?'],

                	],

                	[

                    	'actions' => ['logout'],

                    	'allow' => true,

                    	'roles' => ['@'],

                	],

            	],

        	],

        	'verbs' => [

            	'class' => VerbFilter::className(),

            	'actions' => [

                	'logout' => ['post'],

            	],

        	],

    	];

	}

Yii2 RBAC Wiki

I did not read this but you can use the wiki area, forums, docs and stack overflow for good Yii and Yii2 info.

This would be the best place to start with Yii2