Controller within another Controller

Question

Is it possible to instantiate a Controller class within another controller class using the Yii Framework

For example I have controller Student and and method actionShow of class student I have the following

public function actionShow()
    {  

     $student = $this->loadStudent();

     $studentContact = new Student_ContactController;

     //Checking if there was an ajax request
     if(Yii::app()->request->isAjaxRequest){
      $this->renderPartial('show',array(
       'student'=>$student,

      ));
     }else{
      $this->render('show',array(
       'student'=>$student,
      ));
     }



    }

Is it possible to include this action in the method $studentContact = new Student_ContactController;

Getting errors, :-(

Answer 1

I do not know the Yii framework, but as it is an MVC framework, then getting data should be part of the model, therefore $studentContact should be an instance of a model, not of a controller.

If you really want to instanciate an instance of a controller then call the constructor with brackets:

    $studentContact = new Student_ContactController();