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

[Andreas Ravnestad]

Paul M Jones wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:
>
>   
>> On 11/5/06, Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
>>     
>>> Excellent, this is pretty much exactly what I want :) What I did  
>>> further
>>> was to add your hack to the class Solar_View:
>>>       
>> [...]
>>     
>>> Pretty and perfect! Any chance something like this could  
>>> officially be
>>> added to Solar?
>>>       
>> I've hacked your hack:
>>
>> class Vendor_View_Helper_Component extends Solar_View_Helper {
>>
>>     public function component($action)
>>     {
>>         $front = Solar::factory('Solar_Controller_Front');
>>         return $front->fetch($action);
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> :-)
>>     
>
> Rodrigo, this is exactly what I was going to suggest.  Well done.
>
> Having said that, I'm not a fan of the component idea; as others in  
> this thread have noted, even the Rails guys have determined that  
> components are not that great.  But if it does what you want, then it  
> does what you want.  :-)
>   

Yes, from what I have been able to tell, the common opinion is that 
"fat" components are bad, and I completely agree with that. However, for 
lightweight bits and pieces I use often and at several places, it's 
perfect :-)

And thanks to Rodrigo for his hack, good stuff :)

-Andreas