In the header section of my website I want to show new message. I have a method that fetches new methods and return them. The problem is that header section is in thelayout section and I don't want to repeat one method in all of my controllers.
How to achieve this by not copying the method to all of my controllers? I want to trigger newMessages() method on every page request to gather new messages for logged in user. How to do this the right way?
In your controller overwrite the oOntroller class function beforeAction()
protected function beforeAction($event)
{
$someResult = doSomething()
if ($someResult == $someValue)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return true;
}
}
The return value can be used to stop the request dead in its tracks. So if it returns false, the controller action is not called, and vice versa().
References : http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CController#beforeAction-detail
You can use import controller in another controller action. something like below
class AnotherController extends Controller
{
public function actionIndex()
{
Yii::import('application.controllers.admin.YourController'); // YourController is another controller in admin controller folder
echo YourController::test(); // test is action in YourController
}
}
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I have an issue with my app, that is "hybrid", what I mean by "hybrid" controllers have to manage both views ans APIs.
So, basically, for each controller, I must check:
if $request->wantsJson(){
... // Client rendering using Angular, return json
}else{
// Server rendering Using blade, return view
}
I don't like the fact to have a conditional in every controller method.
I also wouldn't like to have a API folder with a copy of all my controller, there would be a lot of duplicated code.
How should I do it?
I would suggest to create a separate class to handle output ex: class ResultOutput with the method, output.
So, in your controller, when you are ready to output your data, just create a new instance of ResultOutput class, and call method output with relevant data.
In ResultOutput class, inject Request object so you can determine the method of the output based on above logic.
Ex: In your controller:
return (new ResultOutput())->output($data);
In ResultOutput class:
class ResultOutput()
{
private $type;
public __construct(Request $request) {
$this->output = 'view';
if ($request->wantsJson()) {
$this->output = 'json';
}
}
public method output($data) {
if ($this->type =='view') {
// return the view with data
} else {
// return the json output
}
}
}
In this way, if you need to introduce new output method (ex: xml), you can do it without changing all your controllers.
in my case i have a route for get and set API.
if user want to get something i don't want to check Validation. but if his wants to set, i Want to Check Request input validation with Request file.
look:
class EventsController extends Controller
{
public function get(Request $request)
{
if( empty($request['data']) )
{
// Return Request.. is ok
}elseif( !empty($request['data']) && $request->has('data.id') )
{
// so User want to insert in database and I want to check
// Validation with Request file in the method
// How can i Do this?
call $this->store( // send Request to that for Validation )
}
}
public function store(ValidateInput $request)
{
// Insert into Database
}
}
Note: in the getMethod i don't want check validation but in store method i want!
1- i don't want to use other Route and i want do Both in one Request and Route
2- my main Question: who can i change Method in Controller and pass Request to that!
you can try something like :
//Calling a method that is from the EventsController
$result = (new EventsController)->store();
but the best approche is to split them into two methods as #Sandeesh said
How would I go about creating a custom module that has a controller with an action name that is dynamic, in the sense that it can be configured by the user in the admin area at will and be automatically updated in the custom module?
You can override this method in your controller:
public function getActionMethodName($action)
{
return 'indexAction';
}
public function indexAction()
{
//action name
var_dump($this->getRequest()->getActionName());
}
Then always will go to the index action, where you can use the original action name as a parameter.
then:
http://mysite/mymodule/mycontroller/im-dracula-blablabla
Will work!
I think you can approach this by using magic php method __call on your controller.
I assumed that you store your action name in a Magento config named 'mymodule/controller/action', so you can get the value using :
Mage::getStoreConfig('mymodule/controller/action');
Then you have the controller for example Mymodule/controllers/TestController.php
And you add the method in that controller like this :
public function __call($method, $arg) {
if ($method == Mage::getStoreConfig('mymodule/controller/action')) {
//Do whatever you want
}
}
This will make your controller //Do whatever you want when you accessing it using the action you specified in the config. The basic idea is like that. Hope this helps.
İn my MVC3 project, there is plenty of TempData[] that I am using for passing datas between actions. And it works totaly perfect when I use Chrome. But in IE I can't get values of TempData[] items. if anyone knows whats the problem and how can I solve it?`
public class SomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
TempData["id"] = "someData";
return View();
}
}
public class AnotherController : Controller
{
public ActionResult AnotherAction()
{
string data = Convert.ToString(TempData["id"]);
return View();
}
}
`
You should never return a view from a controller action that stores something into TempData. You should immediately redirect to the controller action that is supposed to use it:
public class SomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
TempData["id"] = "someData";
return Redirect("AnotherAction", "Another");
}
}
public class AnotherController : Controller
{
public ActionResult AnotherAction()
{
string data = Convert.ToString(TempData["id"]);
return View();
}
}
The reason for this is that TempData survives only for a single additional request. So for example if inside the view you are sending an AJAX request to some controller action (no matter which) and then have a link in this view pointing to the target action, when the user is redirected to this target action TempData will no longer exist since it was lost during the AJAX request done previously.
If you need to store data for longer than a single redirect you could use Session.
If you need to store data for longer than a single redirect you should use Keep or Peek methods.
string data = TempData["id"].;
TempData.Keep("id");
or simply use,
string data = TempData.Peek("id").ToString();
Peek function helps to read as well as advice MVC to maintain “TempData” for the subsequent request.
I have two controllers a and b.
I would like to call a method of controller a from a method of controller b.
Could anyone help explain how I can achieve this?
This is not supported behavior of the MVC System. If you want to execute an action of another controller you just redirect the user to the page you want (i.e. the controller function that consumes the url).
If you want common functionality, you should build a library to be used in the two different controllers.
I can only assume you want to build up your site a bit modular. (I.e. re-use the output of one controller method in other controller methods.) There's some plugins / extensions for CI that help you build like that. However, the simplest way is to use a library to build up common "controls" (i.e. load the model, render the view into a string). Then you can return that string and pass it along to the other controller's view.
You can load into a string by adding true at the end of the view call:
$string_view = $this->load->view('someview', array('data'=>'stuff'), true);
test.php Controller File :
Class Test {
function demo() {
echo "Hello";
}
}
test1.php Controller File :
Class Test1 {
function demo2() {
require('test.php');
$test = new Test();
$test->demo();
}
}
Very simple way in codeigniter to call a method of one controller to other controller
1. Controller A
class A extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
function custom_a()
{
}
}
2. Controller B
class B extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
function custom_b()
{
require_once(APPPATH.'controllers/a.php'); //include controller
$aObj = new a(); //create object
$aObj->custom_a(); //call function
}
}
I agree that the way to do is to redirect to the new controller in usual cases.
I came across a use case where I needed to display the same page to 2 different kind of users (backend user previewing the page of a frontend user) so in my opinion what I needed was genuinely to call the frontend controller from the backend controller.
I solved the problem by making the frontend method static and wrapping it in another method.
Hope it helps!
//==========
// Frontend
//==========
function profile()
{
//Access check
//Get profile id
$id = get_user_id();
return self::_profile($id);
}
static function _profile($id)
{
$CI = &get_instance();
//Prepare page
//Load view
}
//==========
// Backend
//==========
function preview_profile($id)
{
$this->load->file('controllers/frontend.php', false);
Frontend::_profile($id);
}
I posted a somewhat similar question a while back, but regarding a model on CI.
Returning two separate query results within a model function
Although your question is not exactly the same, I believe the solution follows the same principle: if you're proposing to do what you mention in your question, there may be something wrong in the way you're coding and some refactoring could be in order.
The take home message is that what you're asking is not the way to go when working with MVC.
The best practice is to either use a Model to place reusable functions and call them in a controller that outputs the data through a view -- or even better use helpers or libraries (for functions that may be needed repeatedly).
You can do like
$result= file_get_contents(site_url('[ADDRESS TO CONTROLLER FUNCTION]'));
Replace [ADDRESS TO CONTROLLER FUNCTION] by the way we use in site_url();
You need to echo output in controller function instead of return.
You can use the redirect() function.
Like this
class ControllerA extends CI_Controller{
public function MethodA(){
redirect("ControllerB/MethodB");
}
}
Controller to be extended
require_once(PHYSICAL_BASE_URL . 'system/application/controllers/abc.php');
$report= new onlineAssessmentReport();
echo ($report->detailView());
You can use the redirect URL to controller:
Class Ctrlr1 extends CI_Controller{
public void my_fct1(){
redirect('Ctrlr2 /my_fct2', 'refresh');
}
}
Class Ctrlr2 extends CI_Controller{
public void my_fct2(){
$this->load->view('view1');
}
}
very simple
in first controllr call
$this->load->model('MyController');
$this->MyController->test();
place file MyController.php to /model patch
MyController.php should be contain
class MyController extends CI_Model {
function __construct() {
parent::__construct();
}
function test()
{
echo 'OK';
}
}