renderPartial() vs widget

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Hello there,

There is situation: I have Topic page and topic page have blocks like related topics, other topics from that user and etc.

And I was wondering what will be better to use widgets or just renderPartial()?

Thanks for opinion.

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I’d like to know this too.

Whats the difference and when should you use either?

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Was discussed recently in this thread (help with widgets and partials which one):

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/4252-help-with-widgets-and-partials-which-one/page__hl__renderpartial%20widget__fromsearch__1

/Tommy

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renderPartial needs a controler. Widgets don’t, I think.