Widgets - ZingPHP/Zing GitHub Wiki

What is a widget?

Not many frameworks (if any) support widgets. But what is a widget in Zing? A widget is an item you can use and place within your page by calling it, passing some optional setting and then some HTML is spit back.

Zing comes with a built in example Calendar Widget that it's basic purpose is to show how a widget is created with the Zing Framework.

class Home extends Zing{

    public function main(){
        $cal = $this->getWidget("Calendar");
        $this->smarty->assign("myCalendar", $cal);
    }

}

The calendar widget accepts 3 different options:

• day Which accepts either short or full and is meant to show Mon or Monday, Tue or Tuesday, etc.
• zerofill Which accepts a boolean and is meant to enabled/disable prefixing zeros before days 1-9
• link Which creates a link from a format such %Y-%m-%d for example

Widgets can be very helpful and can allow you to easily create parts of a webpage that do a particular thing really well, such as creating a Calendar, or a Photo Gallery, or anything really.