1. Requirements
2. Install
3. Usage
4. Resources

Allows to render widgets in page content of Yii2 Framework based projects

Requirements ¶

Yii2

Install ¶

Either run ~~~ $ php composer.phar require --prefer-dist howardEagle/yii2-inline-widgets-behavior "" ~~~ or add ~~~ "howardEagle/yii2-inline-widgets-behavior": "" ~~~ to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage ¶

Add a allowed widgets list into config/main.php:

return array(
    // ...
    'params'=>array(
         // ...
        'runtimeWidgets'=>array(
            'ContactsForm',
            'Comments',
            'common\widgets\LastPosts',
        }
    }
}

Create widgets:

class LastPostsWidget extends Widget
{
    public $tpl = 'default';

    public function run()
    {
        $posts = Post::find()->published()->all();
        echo $this->render('LastPosts/' . $this->tpl, array(
            'posts'=>$posts,
        ));
    }
}

Attach the behavior to a main controller:

use howard\behaviors\iwb\InlineWidgetBehavior;

class DefaultController extends Controller
{
    public function behaviors()
    {
        return array(
            'InlineWidgetsBehavior'=>array(
                'class'=> InlineWidgetBehavior::className(),
                'namespace'=> 'common\components\widgets', // default namespace (optional)               
                'widgets'=>Yii::app()->params['runtimeWidgets'],
                'startBlock'=> '[*',
                'endBlock'=> '*]',
             ),
        );
    }
}

You can define a global classname suffix like 'Widget':

class DefaultController extends Controller
{
    public function behaviors()
    {
        return array(
            'InlineWidgetsBehavior'=>array(
                'class'=> InlineWidgetBehavior::className(),
                'widgets'=>Yii::app()->params['runtimeWidgets'],
                'classSuffix'=> 'Widget',
             ),
        );
    }
}

for using short names 'LastPosts' instead of 'LastPostsWidget' :

return array(
    // ...
    'params'=>array(
         // ...
        'runtimeWidgets'=>array(
            'ContactsForm',
            'Comments',
            'common\widgets\LastPosts',
        }
    }
}

For insert widgets in content you can use string of this format in your text: ~~~ [|=[;=]] ~~~

For rendering widgets in any View you must call Controller::decodeWidgets() method for model HTML content.

For example:

<?php $model->text = '
    <h2>Lorem ipsum</h2>
 
    <h2>Latest posts</h2>
    <p>[*LastPosts*]</p>
 
    <h2>Latest posts (with parameters)</h2>
    <p>[*LastPosts|tpl=small*]</p>
 
    <h2>Latest posts (with inner caching)</h2>
    <p>[*LastPosts|tpl=small;cache=300*]</p>
 
    <p>Dolor...</p>
'; ?>
 
<h1><?php echo CHtml::encode($model->title); ?></h1>
<?php echo $this->context->decodeWidgets($model->text); ?>

Resources ¶

• Github
• Yii1 basic extention