[Solar-talk] Partials/Tiles/Elements/Components/Something

[Travis Swicegood]

Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
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> On 11/5/06, *Travis Swicegood* <development at domain51.com 
> <mailto:development at domain51.com>> wrote:
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>     Look through some of the existing app's templates for calls to
>     $this->_partial() - I think that does exactly what you want.
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> That looks great, and in many cases it is exactly what I want :) 
> However, I also want some more logic to go with it. I browsed the RoR 
> documentation today and found [1] which is exactly what I want. Is 
> this doable in Solar?
>
> [1] http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/UnderstandingComponents

Ahh - I see what you're wanting now.  That is not directly available in 
the view, however you could achieve the same result doing:

$front = Solar::factory('Solar_Front_Controller');
$component = $front->display('/controller/action');

I would recommend handling these in the controller - see 
Solar_Controller_Page::_preRender() for a place you could assign the 
results of that in to the view.

-T