Yii: Rendering A View inside CKEditor Text Area

Question

Yii Newbie here, I was wondering if there was anyway to render a view which I have previously made inside a CKEditor TextArea.

I tried rendering it inside the value attribute, but unfortunately it didn't work.

Is there any way to do this? or should I create a seperate function and output the page into the text area?

Any tips, advices or pointers are greatly appreciated !! Thank You

          <?php
    $this->widget('application.extension.CKEditor.TheCKEditorWidget', array(
        'model' => $model,
        'attribute' => 'body', 
         'value' => //rendered page,    
        'height' => '400px',
        'width' => '800px',
        'toolbarSet' => 'Full',
        'ckeditor' => Yii::app()->basePath . '/../ckeditor/ckeditor.php',
        'ckBasePath' => Yii::app()->baseUrl . '/ckeditor/',
        'css' => Yii::app()->baseUrl . '/css/index.css',
    )); ?>

Answer 1

The value attribute is not used if you specify model and attribute attributes. So inorder to display a something inside CKeditor you must specify it as $model->body="Your content goes here" before rendering the widget. In your case you have to render a view inside CKEditor. So use CController::render() function with third parameter as true. ie

<?php
    $model->body=$this->render("viewName",array(),true);

    $this->widget('application.extension.CKEditor.TheCKEditorWidget', array(
        'model' => $model,
        'attribute' => 'body',  
        'height' => '400px',
        'width' => '800px',
        'toolbarSet' => 'Full',
        'ckeditor' => Yii::app()->basePath . '/../ckeditor/ckeditor.php',
        'ckBasePath' => Yii::app()->baseUrl . '/ckeditor/',
        'css' => Yii::app()->baseUrl . '/css/index.css',
    )); ?>