Excellent! thanks Piers! Victor
Piers Cawley wrote: > Victor Jalencas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Hi all, >> >> this is a question for the sidebar experts. I'm interested in having >>access, from the sidebars, to information from the main controller. >>I.e., I'd like to write a couple of sidebars for the article controller, >>and its display action, that show the main page article's trackbacks, or >> metadata, or comments count, or whatever. I could obtain the id from >>the request and do a search for it, but ideally I should be able to >>directly obtain the main controller's @article. >> >> Is there a way and I am missing something obvious, or should a >>mechanism be ideated to pass the @article from the main controller to >>the sidebars? I've tried using the flash object but doesn't work (or I'm >>not using it correctly). > > > The sidebar gets passed the 'contents' being rendered, which is a list > of the articles/pages/comments/whatever that's being displayed on the > current page. That's probably what you want. > > Take a look at how the Amazon sidebar works. > _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
