Question

Let’s imagine that we have OrderController controller with three actions/pages: orderDetailsAction, orderHistoryAction, orderCustomerDetailsAction

Each of these actions are returning some piece of HTML.

Now I want to have page containing all 3 html pieces in same time, but I don’t want to make 3 ajax calls to get this done.

I’m creating additional controller’s action method (orderSummaryAction, for example). This method should contain something like this.

public function orderSummartyAction {
   ob_start();
   Application::factory()->run('/order/details');
   Application::factory()->run('/order/history');
   Application::factory()->run('/order/customer_details');     
   $out = ob_get_clean();
   $this->getResponse()->setHtml($out);
}

Is there any framework doing such things or maybe it is bad practice (what is better practice then)?

Thank you!

UPD: Or we can pass not string url, but Route to create new Application instance. It would be much better, imho.

Answer 1

Symfony2 uses sub-request to invoke multiple controllers.
You can find more details under ‘Embedding Controllers’ here http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/templating.html