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functions in views - El Forum - 04-23-2013
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hello,
I hear a lot of people banging on about how calling functions inside views is bad practice.
What if I had a foreach loop that echo'd out some data but wanted to call a function with some of that data. e.g
<?php foreach ($posts as $post) {
echo $post->title;
echo $post->content;
time_difference($post->timestamp);
}
?>
Notice the time_difference function? How would I do that without calling it in the function?
functions in views - El Forum - 04-23-2013
[eluser]Aken[/eluser]
If all your time_difference() function does is take the timestamp and turn it into something like a human-friendly time, then you're fine. That isn't a big deal, because it's a presentational thing. You'll get some people who strictly say NO, but it's not a hard-written rule.
Just don't go doing a bunch of logic stuff in your views, that's what you should be avoiding.