Redirect From Widget ?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I was reading this forum post which says why redirecting from the widget is a bad MVC practice but may be good from the DRY point of view.

Forget for the moment, good or bad - the question is how do i actually redirect from a widget ?

This code:




$this->redirect(array('view','site/confirmsubscription'));

yields the error:

thanks for the help ::)

2

Dear Friend

It should be




$this->owner->redirect(array('view','site/confirmsubscription'));

What does "site/confirmsubscription" mean?

Regards.

3

thanks again :rolleyes:

However,




$this->owner->redirect(array('view','site/confirmsubscription'));

is not working…

site/confirmsubscription is the controller/action respectively.

the problem is, this widget is located on several controller induced pages.

So the widget may be accessed from any controller.

4

Dear Friend

Then the redirect method should be declared in the following way.




$this->owner->redirect(array('site/confirmsubscription'));

or additional Parameters should be appended like below.




$this->owner->redirect(array('site/confirmsubscription','id'=>$this->id));//or $model->id like so.
5

thanks for replying.

unfortunately that doesnt work ???

If i access the widget from a say another page say from user/login,

it redirects to /user/site/confirmsubscription instead of /site/confirmsubscription

resulting in a 404 error :unsure:

6

Dear Friend

I created a widget and put it inside the components folder.




<?php

class RedirectWidget extends CWidget

{

         public function run()

         {

                $this->owner->redirect(array("site/login"));

         }

}   

?>

At any controller if I call the widget like below, it redirects to login page.




$this->widget('RedirectWidget');

One more suggestion is to put a forward slash at the beginning.




$this->owner->redirect(array('/site/confirmsubscription'));
7

ha that backslash did the trick :)

it is late night or rather wee hours in India…

like me, you too seem to be nocturnal :D

thanks once again