YII: Passing data to a widget from a controller?

php, yii

Solution

dataProvider already has all data included with

$dataProvider->data
$dataProvider->getData()

To place it in the main layout you may create another variable in your Controller

class Controller extends CController
{
    public $data_exchange='';
    ...
}

It will be easy to manipulate everywhere in the code with `$this->data_exchange` similar to `breadcrumbs` in your main layout

$this->widget('searchSidebar', array(
    'id' => 'searchSidebar',
    'data' => $this->data_exchange 
    /* where $this refer to any class which extends Controller */
));

In your view code define your data as:

$this->data_exchange = $dataProvider->data

Problem

I have a search page that passes data to the render function: ``` public function actionIndex() { $this->render( 'searchResults', array( 'dataProvider' => $dataProvider, 'searchQuery' => $searchQuery, ) ); } ``` The problem is, I also need to pass this data from here to a widget that appears in the sidebar. The widget is currently displayed in layout/main.php like so: ``` <?php $this->widget('searchSidebar', array( 'id' => 'searchSidebar', )); ?> ``` How would I go about passing data to this widet from the controller without having to redo the query again?

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