I have a view and I want to display data that would be generated by othe modules and controllers on the page.
What is the best way to do this?
For example: If on a certain page I want to pull in the latest news from the news module.
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A:
There's a view helper called Action which allows you to call another controller's action (and display the markup generated).
I would add an action called latestNewsAction that renders a latest news panel/div/list and call that using the action view helper.
David Caunt
2009-06-10 20:50:09
Does this work if the action/controller is in a different module?
Jesse Lesperance
2009-06-10 20:58:55
@Jesse: yes, it does. See third parameter, and read the doc.
erenon
2009-06-10 21:42:20
Yep, and you can pass params in an array as the 4th parameter to the helper, especially useful if you need a way of telling the view to do something *slightly* different when it's called from another view!
David Caunt
2009-06-10 22:51:40