Yii2 - Render _search.php file inside index.php of a view - php

Question

i have a view folder called eventos in Yii2. This view is an image gallery.
The _view2.php is for display of the images to general public. It works quite well.
But now i want to create a globalsearch input text inside _view2.php.
There i have already a GridView widget for display the images, but i don't want to use the $searchmodel boxes so i disable them.
What i want is to render the _search.php file with just one input field, inside the _view2.php file
My problem is in rendering the _search.php inside the _view2.php file.
Here is the code for _view2.php:
<?= GridView::widget([
'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
'filterModel' => $searchModel,
'showOnEmpty'=>false,
'summary'=>'',
'showFooter'=>false,
'showHeader' => false,
'bordered' => false,
'striped' => false,
'hover' => true,
//'options' => ['class' => 'grid-view'],
//'layout' => "{summary}\n{items}\n{pager}",
'columns' => [
['class' => 'yii\grid\SerialColumn'],
//'id',
//'nome',
'descricao',
'data',
// No model -> getImageurl()
[
'label' => '',
'format' => 'raw',
'value'=> function($data) { return Html::a(Html::img($data->imageurl, ['width'=>'300', 'height' => "170"]), $data->foto); },
],
[
'label' => '',
'format' => 'raw',
'value'=> function($data) { return Html::a(Html::img($data->imageurl2, ['width'=>'300', 'height' => "170"]), $data->foto2); },
],
['class' => 'yii\grid\ActionColumn', 'template' => ''],
],
]); ?>
And i need to render the _search.php inside the _view2.php.
Code for _search.php:
<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin([
'action' => ['index'],
'method' => 'get',
]); ?>
<?= $form->field($model, 'globalsearch') ?>
Any ideas?

Answer 1

SOLVED.
_view2.php code:
use yii\base\view;
echo $this->render('_search', array('model'=>$searchModel));

Answer 2

You can use renderPartial to display a partil view inside another
For example adding this:
<?php echo $this->renderPartial('_search', array('model'=>$model)); ?>
This is an example that is generated with gii by the way
Here is the code of a file view/create.php:
<?php
/* #var $this EventsController */
/* #var $model Events */
$this->breadcrumbs=array(
'Events'=>array('index'),
'Create',
);
$this->menu=array(
array('label'=>'List Events', 'url'=>array('index')),
array('label'=>'Admin Events', 'url'=>array('admin')),
);
?>
<h1>Create Event</h1>
<?php echo $this->renderPartial('_form', array('model'=>$model)); ?>
As you can see the view 'create' loads the partial view '_form' that is the way you acomplish this. So you can reuse the _form view in another views like in the update view for example.