Question

I’ve figured out how to get models into partialLoops using the setObjectKey method of the PartialLoop helper. What I’m wondering if there is a way to specify that specific partial loops use the model key and other ones don’t. Right now I think I have to do something like this:

// sets the object key for ALL partialLoops
$this->partialLoop()->setObjectKey("model");
// do the thing
echo $this->partialLoop("elements/recent-blog.phtml", $this->blogs);
// reset the object key so further partialLoops do NOT use the key
$this->partialLoop()->setObjectKey(null);

Any way around this?

Answer 1

Suggestion to NOT using setObjectKey() is plain wrong – provided code would certainly fail to work with array of objects. Straight from the manual:

If your model is an object, you may
want to have it passed as an object to
the partial script, instead of
serializing it to an array of
variables. You can do this by setting
the ‘objectKey’ [..skip..]

So, if you don’t want your objects to be serialized, you have to use setObjectKey(). Since parial and partialLoop helpers are both accessible from controller and view (as any other view helper), I tend to enable object key globally, and switch it of in particular loop (re-enabling at the loop end). Extra typing for sure, but seems to work well.