Extended Views

Friends,

I would enjoy receiving your best practice recommendations for developing a view that contains multiple html selects.

Let's say, I'm developing a user maintenance screen that contains multiple html selects. The data used to populate the selects comes from the database (i.e. departments in a company). The select is used to assign the user to a department.

Here's how I'm thinking of building this view:
1. Develop a main view.
2. Develop a view that generates an html select.
In controller do the following:
1. Obtain data for a select via a model controller.
2. Pass data to view select generator via $data variable.
3. Receive html generated by view and place in an array.
4. Repeat 1-3 as many times as needed.
5. Pass array to main view via $data variable.
6. Main view generates main web page.

This process could be extended and repeated as needed.

Does this seem like a good approach for combining multiple html components generated from dynamic data?

Thanks for the comments.