Where To Fulfill A Variable To Show In View File?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I want to show a dropdown in a form in a Yii project with for items. I know I can use


echo $form->dropDownList($model,'element_id', $Options);

in _form.php view file.

Where is the best place to fulfill $options variable ? in which file ? view ? controller ?

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it depends but here is some suggestions. if $option is:

[list=1][]the result of a DB query then it’s better to be in the controller.[]simply an array of constant values, put it in the view.[/list]