Question

In Rails it’s easy:

View has:

<% content_for :sidebar do %>
... sidebar HTML ...
<% end %>

Layout has:

<%= yield :sidebar %>

Can I do same in Yii?

UPDATE: How can use both dynamic header, content and footer in main.php layout?

Answer 1

You can define public $sidebar in your base Controller component. Then you can assign to $this->sidebar in your views or controllers and retrieve $this->sidebar in your layouts. You should also look into renderPartial() which can be used in layouts, controllers, and views to render partial HTML content (content without layout). e.g. $this->renderPartial('/some/view')