Question

In the controller (which is a class called MessageController), there is this code, which renders a “view” file named helloWorld and also sets an array where the variable $theTime is connected to the key ‘time’.

$theTime = date("D M j G:i:s T Y"); 
$this->render('helloWorld',array('time'=>$theTime));

In the view helloWorld file, the key ‘time’ from the controller is displayed here through the variable $time

<h3><?php echo $time; ?></h3>

this works perfectly. However, the book also suggests trying another way. It says

Alter the previous example by defining
a public class property on
MessageController, rather than a
locally scoped variable, whose value
is the current date and time. Then
display the time in the view file by
accessing this class property through
$this.

I haven’t been able to figure out how to do this. Anyone know how

Answer 1

class MessageController {
  public $time;

  public function beforeAction($action) {
    $this->time = date("D M j G:i:s T Y");
    return true;
  }

  public function someAction() {
    $this->render('helloWorld');

in the view:

echo $this->time;