Old time Drupal guy here struggling with how to get data to the presentation layer. I have created ui listing and form components to list and edit records but there seems to be a gap in a process to simply list information on a page.
For this I have created a custom controller –
Vendor/Module/Controller/Adminhtml/QueueItem/View.php
and a template –
Vendor/Module/view/adminhtml/templates/queueitem/view.phtml
I am using a layout file that references a ViewModel:
Vendor/Module/view/adminhtml/layout/vendor_queueitem_view.xml
< ?xml version="1.0"?>
View Queue Item
VendorModuleViewModelQueueItemView
My questions:
- Should I create a Block, a ViewModel or both?
- Where do I load the data for the model? QueueItem with id = 2 for example
- How does the above record (queueitem with id = 2) get into the phtml template?
Looking to do this the Magento way. Currently using version 2.2.10 and will be updating to 2.3.x shortly.
thanks in advance.
mikeg