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paullb

What is the best way to build a page in FuelPHP so that each of the blocks of the page are built on their own as modules and then the output HTML is put together in a layout.

The best i have found thus far is the HMVC with something like the below.

$block1= Request::forge('mycontroller/block1')->execute();

$block2= Request::forge('mycontroller/block2')->execute();

$data['block1'] =$block1;

$data['block2'] = $block2;

//assign the view to browser output

return View::forge('home/index', $data);

However loading up the who framework for the calls seems rather inefficient and slow. Is there a better way to do this?

Harro

You're not loading the entire framework for HMVC calls, you're just creating a secondary request, the overhead of that is quite limited (compared to the framework setup).

It is the proper way to do it, lously coupled, and if you put it in a try/catch block, it can also deal with a module not being there (by catching the 404). Also, a standard request will utilize the routing engine, so you can easily reroute requests to other modules without changing your code.

You also need a request to properly setup and call a controller, you can't call a controller class directly.

Francois_Maujean

Hi there!

I wish to mention, for those who wonder about the performance penalty, on my box an hmvc call is less than 1 milisec, it's very light.

My box is an iMac with i5 proc.

paullb

Thanks Harro, that was just the information I needed. Thanks also for the adviceof putting it in a try/catch block!

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