Yii two Models in one View

Adding two models to one view is pretty easy if they have a relation.
I’ll assume you know how to generate CRUD with gii und use the example in Relational Objects

I’ll generate CRUD for both Models which will generate Controllers and Views for models,
after this you should be ok generating controllers seperately and creating your own views

Step 1 – Generate CRUD

Generate CRUD for JUser with gii
Generate CRUD for JProfile with gii

Step 2 – Controller

Lets say I want to include the information from JProfile in JUser view,
since each user has his/her own profile.

Open JUserController.php under controllers folder
Change the actionView function

public function actionView($id)

{

$this->render('view',array(

'model'=>$this->loadModel($id),

));

}

public function actionView($id)

{

$model = $this->loadModel($id);

$this->render('view',array(

'model_u'=>$model,

'model_p'=>$model->jProfiles, // check relations in JUser

));

}

Instead of sending only the model information to the view I send the model and also one of the model in its relations, in this case JProfile
This is much easier because these objects are in relation
You will eventually realise that same logic can be applied to create etc 🙂
In case theres no relation you just have to get the model using some other mean like another controller

Step 3 – View

Open view.php under views/JUser folder
Change the view to look like this

<?php

/* @var $this JUserController */

/* @var $model_u JUser */

/* @var $model_p JProfile */

$this->breadcrumbs=array(

'Jusers'=>array('index'),

$model_u->userid,

);

$this->menu=array(

array('label'=>'List JUser', 'url'=>array('index')),

array('label'=>'Create JUser', 'url'=>array('create')),

array('label'=>'Update JUser', 'url'=>array('update', 'id'=>$model_u->userid)),

array('label'=>'Delete JUser', 'url'=>'#', 'linkOptions'=>array('submit'=>array('delete','id'=>$model_u->userid),'confirm'=>'Are you sure you want to delete this item?')),

array('label'=>'Manage JUser', 'url'=>array('admin')),

);

<h1>View JUser #<?php echo $model_u->userid; ?></h1>

<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CDetailView', array(

'data'=>$model_u,

'attributes'=>array(

'userid',

'username',

'email',

)); ?>

<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.CDetailView', array(

'data'=>$model_p,

'attributes'=>array(

'profileid',

'name',

'surname',

)); ?>

This entry was posted in Yii and tagged 2 models 1 view,belongs to,has many,yii on June 15, 2013