如何在同一页面上显示一个控制器的两个视图

Question

I have a doubt for few days ago. I hope to explain well, and sorry for my english.

Im working with CakePHP, well, i have some controllers with their own views, etc.. What happens is: i have two functions in my controller, and i want that, when i do mouse click on one element (in this case, google chart pie chart) of my view "ONE", i want to execute the other function of the controller (that renders view "TWO") from the view ONE, BUT, in the SAME page.

I know how to treat the click on pie chart, this isnt the problem. The problem IS, how to keep visible the view ONE when i treat the click on it and go to the other view TWO. So i mean, i want to have in the end, the page default with the two views, ONE and TWO, that each has her own function in controller, it isnt a simple view, like a text, table...

I have tried some solutions: requestaction, href of javascript, helpers... but i dont get the solution.

I'd be very grateful if you could help me! Any question ask me, and i hope to have explained well and that you understand my english!

Greetings!

Answer 1

The only way you can do it is by making element with one of your views and then add this element in the other view. You can simply add an element in your view with $his->element('ElementName'); . See http://book.cakephp.org/1.3/en/The-Manual/Developing-with-CakePHP/Views.html for more information about elements in cakephp.

Put $this->element('name'); in a div and using ajax you might be calling the function i guess. So in the controller function write something like this:

$this->set('set your variables for the elements here');
$view = new View($this, false);
$content = $view->element('my-element');
json_encode($content);

and catch this response in success part of your ajax call.

success: function (data){
    $("#div_id").html(data);
}

I hope that makes sense.