[Solar-talk] Solar_View_Helper_Capture

[Paul M Jones]

Hi all,

Quoting from <http://solarphp.com/trac/ticket/17> ...

> A good little helper to allow grabbing chunks of content without  
> getting into using ob_start etc. For example, if we had a layout  
> that had a side_bar, but wanted to set it in the current child  
> template file. We would do:
>
> <?php $this->capture('side_bar') ?>
>
>     Content for the side_bar! This will be available AFTER the view  
> is rendered...
>
> <?php $this->capture() ?>
>
> And the code:
>
> Solar::loadClass('Solar_View_Helper');
>
> class Helper_Capture extends Solar_View_Helper {
>
>     private $_captures = array();
>
>     function capture($name=false){
>
>         if( $name ){
>
>             $this->_captures[] = $name; ob_start();
>
>         }else{
>
>             $name = array_pop($this->_captures); $this->_view-> 
> $name = ob_get_clean();
>
>         } return $this;
>
>     }
>
> }

I'm thinking this is well-served by the existing "partial" helper.   
Instead of embedding the output to be captured in the same file, you  
put that code in a separate file, and retrieve it using partial().   
For example:

-- main.php --

     <?php $side_bar = $this->partial('_side_bar.php') ?>

-- _side_bar.php --

     Content for the side_bar! This will be available AFTER the view  
is rendered...

Note also that variables can be passed into the partial scope as  
well; see the docs here:

   <http://solarphp.com/index.php/docs/read/Solar_View/partial()>

Does anyone here see a common and frequent case where capture() as  
outlined above would make more sense than using partial()?


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