Render other modules' layout

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi, I’d like to render the main.php layout of another module. For example:

[b]

column1.php[/b]




<?php $this->beginContent('//modules/blog/views/layouts/main'); ?>

<div id="content">

	<?php echo $content; ?>

</div>

<?php $this->endContent(); ?>

Is that possible?

2

I would suggest to solve this using themes

and then you can specify your own layouts for modules in a theme.

To get you an idea…

Suppose you have modules module1 and module2 and you create themes theme1 and theme2

then you would need these layouts:




themes/theme1/views/module1/layouts/main.php

themes/theme1/views/module2/layouts/main.php

themes/theme2/views/module1/layouts/main.php

themes/theme2/views/module2/layouts/main.php

You can change the theme on the fly either in a module or in a controller.




class Module1Module extends CWebModule {

	public function init() {

		$this->setImport(array(

			'module1.models.*',

			'module1.components.*',

		));

		Yii::app()->theme = 'theme1';

	}

}







class DefaultController extends Controller {

	public function actionIndex() {

 		Yii::app()->theme = 'theme1';

		$this->render('index');

	}

}