From the official documentation of Codeigniter 4 for view layouts there is a function renderSection
that you can use at your templates.
The main problem though is that I couldn’t figure out how this works. Please have in mind that I don’t want a work-around for this, I really need to know how the renderSection
works and what I am missing.
To be more precise:
At my Controller
I have this code:
// TestController.php ... // My method ... $view = ConfigServices::renderer(); $view->setVar('output', $output); return $view->render('my-main-view'); ...
and my view looks something like this:
// my-main-view.php ... <div class="main-container"> <main> <?php echo $output; ?> </main> <?php echo $this->renderSection('sidebar'); ?> </div> ...
So my question is:
Can I somehow add the data that I would like to have for the ‘sidebar’ from my controller? I would like to use the renderSection
specifically to understand how it works.
Please do not add a work-around for this. I know that I could just have the:
$view->setVar('sidebar', view('my-view'));
and then at my template:
echo $sidebar;
The main reason that I am asking this is that we usually find work-arounds and we are missing the point of how to actually use the renderSection
Is there any kind of:
$view->setRenderSection('sidebar', 'my-view', ['data' => $data]);
that I can use? Am I missing something here?
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Answer
After spending some time to understand how the section is working, I could finally find a solution to the render section.
The solution is not quite obvious thought. It seems that there isn’t any setRenderSection
so I did create my own to my controller. More specifically to the previous example we had:
$view = ConfigServices::renderer(); $view->setVar('output', $output); return $view->render('my-main-view');
So I’ve added a function at my Controller with name _setRenderSection
:
private function _setRenderSection($viewRenderer, $sectionName , $viewName, $data = []) { $viewRenderer->section($sectionName); echo view($viewName, $data); $viewRenderer->endSection($sectionName); }
So my final method will look like this:
$view = ConfigServices::renderer(); $view->setVar('output', $output); $this->_setRenderSection($view, 'sidebar' ,'my-view', ['data' => '123']); return $view->render('my-main-view');
I am also copying the full Controller just in case you would like to copy-paste it:
<?php namespace AppControllers; class Webpages extends BaseController { private function _setRenderSection($viewRenderer, $sectionName , $viewName, $data = []) { $viewRenderer->section($sectionName); echo view($viewName, $data); $viewRenderer->endSection($sectionName); } public function about() { $view = ConfigServices::renderer(); $view->setVar('output', 'Hello World!'); $this->_setRenderSection($view, 'sidebar' ,'my-view', ['data' => '123']); return $view->render('my-main-view'); } }