Where is the best place to generate content?

Question

Yii

I wrote a code that collects the html code of the menu from an array with parameters. The question is that I don’t know where such code should be placed, in the controller to collect everything in $content and give it to the show, or should the view be involved in such matters?

Answer 1

How about a widget (including the standard CMenu)?

Answer 2

In the helper
And it would be better to collect into some variable, and not immediately echo out
Or make a separate view and method

Answer 3

Create your own widget (the class is inherited from CWidget), it has a run() method, in which you can start rendering the widget's view. I would not recommend the helper option because of the broken windows theory.