Rendering View inside View

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello, I am pretty noob in Yii framework, but what I have found out is that it is a wonderful and powerful tool. So now I want to make separate "sections" in my view, and that combine then within the view, for examle:

I want to create a "register.php", "user_details.php", "left-navigation.php" … and then load them in a view, like so: home.php (the index page view) should load user-details.php and left-navigation.php … Do you understand what I want? so what are there a good ways of doing it? should i do it with view files or do it with widgets?

please, if you know best techniques for doing this, inform me.

Sorry for my English.

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you can you renderParitial for this purpose like so:


$this->renderPartial('user-details');

put this in your main view file and it will render the contents of user-details.php.

Hope this helps

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Yes! And remember that inside a view you are in a specific controller and action. This means that if your path is

/index.php?r=site/index

The controller is /protected/controllers/SiteController.php

The view is /protected/views/site/index

But … what if you want to show a view in anther folder like …

/protected/views/products/detail.php

Easy: you must specify the entire path:

$this->renderPartial(’//product/detail’);

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Thank you very much for reply, but does it mean that I can use renderPartial method so many times as I want in a single view? Or is there some limits?

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You can do renderPartial as much as you want.

PS: Make sure you do not end up in a loop :)