shopping cart widget or component or module ?

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Hi all !

Im new to the yii framework and I am a bit confused about the diffrent avalible components.

So I will build a shopping cart that should be included on every page with an certain layout.

At the moment i have a basic controller that can be called with ajax from the productpage to add items to the cart.

and then do a renderpartial. this works fine but I cant include a call to a controller from a layout can I ??

so whats the best approach achiving what i want ?

I want a cart that displays on every page, but I also nedd the abilty to do ajax calls and render the cart with renderpartial.

Could someone chime in please.

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As I understand you need an action that will return this cart (it will be in a div that will be updated with ajax).

I do not know if the view of this action can call a widget.

Also I thing this action’s view (if possible) will be rendered at the layout.

I hope to help.

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I dont really understand what you are suggestion,

This is my setup so far

I have a cart object stored in the session db

I have a controller basket controller wich I can call from the project page with ajax

This controller adds the project to the cart object and then do a render partial. of the cart

from within the cart I also have functionality to remove update etc wich also do ajax calls to the basket controller.

My problem is now the cart is not rendered without an ajax call, and I want it to be displyed on every page without the need of first doing an ajax call thats update the div.

was that any clearer ?

Thanks for your time

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So why you don make a widget or a view to show your cart?

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Can I make a POST to a widget ? might be a stupid question but I have not seen that anywhere?

I need to post when making ajax calls both from within the dcart and from the outside eg the product page.

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You want to show your cart at your page so you have to make a view that will be rendering at layout.

You also can attach this view to a action that will make whatever you want.

Is that fit you?

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so what you are saying is that I can share the view between the widget and a controller

eg they will use the same view file.

Could you please provide some examples on how to do that and I will be very grateful.

thanks

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You may read this, it is just a view rendering at a controller and at layout I thing will be with renderpartial even I did not try it.