When to use Control and Components
- unagi2020
- Member | 18
I have being reading about components and controls but am not sure about the
best practices of using them for widgets. Could someone please guide me ?
I am planning to develop following basic widgets for a site … please help
me
Tabs,
Recent Posts,
Sidebar and Header Login,
Search,
Recent Posts,
Service Status – Will automatically refresh data every 5 seconds,
Data Grid,
Auto Complete,
Drag and Drop
Thanks for looking at this post,
Unagi.
Last edited by unagi2020 (2011-02-14 20:29)
- Jan Tvrdík
- Nette guru | 2595
I'm not sure what you already know about components, so I start with the basic.
A component is every class which implements the interface
IComponent. The default implementation of this interface is the
class Nette\Component.
A control is every class which extends
Nette\Application\Control, which is a special type of component
designed for direct usage in presenters (has for example method
link and supports signals [interface ISignalReceiver])
with support for normal rendering (has template
factory) and partial rendering (interface IPartiallyRenderable,
used for AJAX).
So all the “widgets” you have mentioned should be instance of
Nette\Application\Control.
Feel free to ask me additional questions.