Same view both on frontend and backend

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello,

I use the yii advanced template with frontend and backend. I have a complicated view with many calculations in my frontend for the logged in user and now I want to have the same in the backend for all users. Can I move the code in the common folder? How does this work? I don’t want to have the same code twice, as there are minor tweaks here and then.

Thanks!

2

Hi,

If the view is more or less "stand-alone" you could move it (for example) to:

common/views/whatever/someview.php

And call it in frontend and backend controllers like (for example):




return $this->render('@common/views/whatever/someview', [

   'model' => $model,

]);

If the view is tied to a specific action,

you could consider creating a "standalone-action" and map it in frontend and backend controllers.

Read (or just google "yii2 standalone action"):

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-structure-controllers.html

Hope this helps.

Best Regards

3

yes, thanks. It is indeed more than the view, there are many lines of controller code. Now I try it with standalone actions, see how this works…

4

So with standalone actions it is only possible to get the whole action? I’d like to see the view in the commons folder more like a partial, because on the backend I have some more to show like breadcrumbs and so on. So I would render the view in the backend folder and inside the view I render the commons view as a partial, but the problem is the code in the controller…

5

Hey,

From what you wrote it sounds like a job for a widget:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-structure-widgets.html

Regards

6

Yeah, widget was the right hint, it works!

Thanks a lot ;D