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Yes add parameters. Why don’t you read the widget code in this thread and figure it out for yourself? The very first post has an example passing parameters to a widget.

I did read it bud. Your examples are short and to the point and often don’t have a lot of explanation behind them. Maybe that should be enough from your point of view but to us beginners it can take a good bit more explaining to fully grasp.

So which part of this example shown in the first post of this thread is unclear to you?

<?php widget::run('user_login', (bool) $this->user->is_guest); ?>

Yes that’s perfectly clear that you are passing a param in that line of code. Obviously I wasn’t sure that passing the data in this way is exactly what you meant. All I’m saying is have a little patience..

This is pretty cool so I’m going to check it out. Do you know if this works with the Form Generation Library?

this works with reactor ? if so any changes needed ?

@Quasi
I copy the PHP5 version and put it in helpers folder, autoload it, and works fine.

The only change i do is clareting the functions static, however, without that, the class works fine.

@ClaudioX ty i will try

hello,
if i use <?php widget::run(‘somw_widget’); ?>.
it’s echo immediately.

i want to keep it in string, not echo.
how to make it just return value?

thank you. 😊

( i am using ci2+modular extensions+php5 )

then echo output in widget run function .

function run(){
  echo $output;
}

@umefarooq
thanks but not that way..
i want it just return value from $this->render()
NOT echo without echo. (please try to call widget from topic example without echo and you will know.)

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from this page http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/109584/P20/

Updated Widget plugin for use with Modular Extensions PHP5

my widget

class test extends widget {
    
    
    public $title = "Test";
    public $description = "For test";


    function run() {
        $this->render("test");
    }
    
    
}

test.php

views/test.php

call widget by

<?php widget::run(‘test’); ?>

it will echo, print widget. but i want to keep it in variable, $string

... i want this

<?php
$widget = widget::run('test');
// do something with widget
$widget = str_replace(...);
?>

i cannot make it.

wiredesignz thanks for code. One question - you asked to move file to helper so will it be fine in helper or in library?

Helper is better than library, The widget class will be loaded but not instantiated until you call widget::run().

Updated Widget plugin for use with Modular Extensions PHP5

<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
/**
 * Widget Plugin 
 * 
 * Install this file as application/plugins/widget_pi.php
 * 
 * @version:     0.21
 * $copyright     Copyright (c) Wiredesignz 2009-09-07
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
 * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 * 
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
 * all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 * 
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
 * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
 * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
 * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
 * OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
 * THE SOFTWARE.
 */
class Widget
{
    public $module_path;
    
    function run($file) {        
        $args = func_get_args();
        
        $module = '';
        
        /* is module in filename? */
        if (($pos = strrpos($file, '/')) !== FALSE) {
            $module = substr($file, 0, $pos);
            $file = substr($file, $pos + 1);
        }

        list($path, $file) = Modules::find($file, $module, 'widgets/');
    
        if ($path === FALSE) {
            $path = APPPATH.'widgets/';
        }
            
        Modules::load_file($file, $path);
                
        $file = ucfirst($file);
        $widget = new $file〈);
        
        $widget->module_path = $path;
            
        return call_user_func_array(array($widget, 'run'), array_slice($args, 1));    
    }
    
    function render($view, $data = array(〉) {
        extract($data);
        include $this->module_path.'views/'.$view.EXT;
    }

    function load($object) {
        $this->$object = load_class(ucfirst($object));
    }

    function __get($var) {
        global $CI;
        return $CI->$var;
    }
}

as far i know current CI 2.1 don’t have plugin loader,

can i wrote this code into library instead ? but i notice the HMVC MX loader have plug in function.

i confuse, so should i follow the old CI 1.7 method application/plugins ??
or i need to rewrite it as Library put in application/libraries ??

i’m currently on CI 2.1

and the widget(s) structure still follow as same as this ?
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/109584/#552514

and this version don’t need to load any variable from the config ??
i see earlier version have this…..

If you use Modular Extensions HMVC then you can load the Widget class as a plugin as described in this thread. Otherwise you should load the Widget class as a helper.