Passing data from the controller to the template (layout). How to correctly implement in yii2?

Question

Yii

Up to this point, I used $this->view->params to pass data from view to layout, but now there is a need to use a rather large amount of data in the template, namely to implement a list of friends. To do this, you need to get all the necessary information about these users from the database in the controller and transfer it to layout. And no matter what view is currently being rendered. It seems to me that $this->view->params for this is a rather clumsy solution. What is usually done in such situations?

Answer 1

You can wrap this custom logic in a widget and then it will be connected in the template in one line.