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Splitting the common view content into reusable views

Sometimes, views share the same common portion of content. In the examples made until now, we have seen that a common area for itemsList and itemDetail could be copyright data, which displays a disclaimer about copyright info.

In order to make this, we must put the common content in a separate view and call it using the renderPartial() method of controller (http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-base-controller.html#renderPartial%28%29-detail). It has the same types of parameters of the render() method; the main difference between the render() and renderPartial() methods is that render() writes a view content in layout and renderPartial() writes only view contents to output.

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