Widgets

Widgets are reusable building blocks on client-side (containing JavaScript, HTML and CSS). They are used to create complex and configurable user interface elements in views.

For example, a Progress widget and DatePicker widget can create a progress bar and stylist date picker in your application.

Using Widgets

Widgets are majorly used in views. To call a widget you can call,

This method takes a configuration array for initializing the widget.

For example, the following code inserts a date picker widget configured to use Russian language.

Example

In this example, we'll use progress widget.

Step 1 Create an action actionWidget() in the SiteController.php file in the frontend directory.

Look at the above code, we are rendering to the widget page in view folder.

Step 2 Create a page widget.php in the views/site folder in the frontend directory.

Step 3 Run it on the browser with the URL,

http://localhost/wid/frontend/web/index.php?r=site/widget