Get component output

[dgrey]

Hello, I'm programming a component in joomla 2.5

This component needs to retrive the display (the view) of another component (for example it need to get the formatted content of an article, as an html string.
In other terms, i need to get the return of the display method of the component from another component, is that possible?

Thanks.

[Ratmil]

I would try something like this:

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$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, "localhost/joomla/index.php?option=com_yourcomponent&tmpl=component");
ob_start();
curl_exec($ch);
$ret_str = ob_get_contents();
curl_close($ch);
ob_end_clean();

[dgrey]

Well this could work, but it's not very efficient. With curl i will need to make http request calls for every page...it can be slow and waste bandwith maybe.

Also i want only the component output, with this I would get the graphical template, all the modules and the component inside.

[Ratmil]

Check that I have used "tmpl=component"
This removes all except component output.

You could use JComponentHelper::renderComponent($component);
But wouldn't work.