remember-filters-gridview Follow @yiiframework

This extension helps you to remember/store filter values of GridViews during navigation, filters will stick.

Requirements

Advanced Functionalities

Scenarios

Change Log

The ERememberFiltersBehavior extension adds up some functionality to the default possibilites of CActiveRecord/Model implementation.

It will detect the search scenario and it will save the filters from the GridView. This comes handy when you need to remember them between navigation during page changes. For lot of navigation and heavy filtering, this functionality can be activated by just a couple of lines.

It supports default filter values and remember scenarios also. For example if you want to show only eg: Active Products, you can setup the default filter using this extension. Or if you have the same modal on different views, you can set different scenarios to remember state separated from each other. See the optional params under Advanced Functionalities and Scenarios section.

The source code is maintained on GitHub. You are welcome to contribute.

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Requirements ¶

Yii 1.1

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Resources ¶

Usage ¶

Step 1 ¶

To use this extension, just copy this file to your components/ directory, add 'import' => 'application.components.ERememberFiltersBehavior', [...] to your config/main.php and paste the following code to your behaviors() method of your model

public function behaviors() {
       return array(
           'ERememberFiltersBehavior' => array(
               'class' => 'application.components.ERememberFiltersBehavior',
               'defaults'=>array(),           /* optional line */
               'defaultStickOnClear'=>false   /* optional line */
           ),
       );
}

Step 2 ¶

Your actionAdmin() must not use unsetAttributes() as this was moved to the extension.

With this extension the actionAdmin instead of the classic

public function actionAdmin()
        {
                $model=new Company('search');
                $model->unsetAttributes();  // clear any default values
                if(isset($_GET['Company']))
                        $model->attributes=$_GET['Company'];
                $this->render('admin',array(
                        'model'=>$model,
                ));
        }

can be as simple as:

public function actionAdmin()
        {
                $model=new Company('search');
                $this->render('admin',array(
                        'model'=>$model,
                ));
        }

Advanced Functionalities ¶

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'defaults' is a key value pair array, that will hold the defaults for your filters. For example when you initially want to display active products, you set to array('status'=>'1'). You can of course put multiple default values in the array.
'defaultStickOnClear'=>true can be used, if you want the default values to be put back when the user clears the filters The default set is false so if the user clears the filters, also the defaults are cleared out, the user will get an absolutely clean filter form. When true, if the form is cleared, he will get a form with defaults values.

Scenarios ¶

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You can use scenarios to remember the filters on multiple states of the same model. This is helpful when you use the same model on different views and you want to remember the state separated from each other. Known limitations: the views must be in different actions (not on the same view)

To set a scenario add the setRememberScenario call after the instantiation Sample code:

public function actionAdmin()
        {
                $model=new Company('search');
                $model->setRememberScenario('scene1');
                $this->render('admin',array(
                        'model'=>$model,
                ));
        }

This extension has also a pair Clear Filters Gridview

Change Log ¶

The change log is maintained on GitHub. You are welcome to contribute.

remember, filters, cgridview, gridview, store, reload, controller, model, behavior, interface, widget, stick, scenario

Total 18 comments

#13144

MrJ at 2013/05/07 07:15pm

Remember page and sort

I've opened a pull for these changes on your GitHub repo.

http://www.stupidannoyingproblems.com/2012/04/yii-grid-view-remembering-filters-pagination-and-sort-settings/

#10142

mariusn at 2012/10/07 06:13am

rememberScenario

I have a model with a modified search action for a specific scenario and the saving of filters wouldn't work - so I modified doReadSave by checking for the remembered scenario too instead of just the default 'search' scenario. It seems to be working fine, but is this the best approach?

if ($this->owner->scenario == 'search' || $this->owner->scenario == $this->rememberScenario) {

#9866

andrew.b at 2012/09/17 06:05am

2 improvements

Imho this ext. is so useful it should be in core. Thx to Pentium10!

To suit my needs i've made two changes:

Sometimes default values are not empty, and users set it to 0 or empty string (to show all of given cathegory). To make remember-filters-gridview save this values function readSearchValues can be changed this way:

private function readSearchValues() {
        $modelName = get_class($this->owner);
        $attributes = $this->owner->getSafeAttributeNames();
 
        // set any default value
 
        if (is_array($this->defaults) && (null===Yii::app()->user->getState($modelName . __CLASS__. 'defaultsSet', null))) {
            foreach ($this->defaults as $attribute => $value) {
                if (null === (Yii::app()->user->getState($this->getStatePrefix() . $attribute, null))) {
                    Yii::app()->user->setState($this->getStatePrefix() . $attribute, $value);
                }
            }
            Yii::app()->user->setState($modelName . __CLASS__. 'defaultsSet', 1);
        }
 
        // set values from session
 
        foreach ($attributes as $attribute) {
            if (null !== ($value = Yii::app()->user->getState($this->getStatePrefix() . $attribute, null))) {
                try
                {
                    $this->owner->$attribute = $value;
                }
                catch (Exception $e) {
                }
            }
        }
    }

Second mod was based on comment from lubosdz - makes remember-filters-gridview remember sorting and paging. I found lubosdz code not work in some scenario and here is improvement:

private function doReadSave() {
        if ($this->owner->scenario == 'search')
        {
            $this->owner->unsetAttributes();
 
            // store also sorting order
            // Two possibilities
            // 1. CActiveDataProvider with default sorting uses variable like 'ClassName_sort'
            $key = get_class($this->owner).'_sort';
            if(!empty($_GET[$key]))
            {
                Yii::app()->user->setState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'sort', $_GET[$key]);
            }
            else
            {
                $val = Yii::app()->user->getState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'sort');
                if(!empty($val))
                    $_GET[$key] = $val;
            }
 
            // 2. CActiveDataProvider with custom CSort model uses simply 'sort' variable
            if(!empty($_GET['sort']))
            {
                Yii::app()->user->setState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'sort2', $_GET['sort']);
            }
            else
            {
                $val = Yii::app()->user->getState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'sort2');
                if(!empty($val))
                    $_GET['sort'] = $val;
            }
 
            // store active page in page
            // Again two options...
            // 1. CActiveDataProvider with default pagination uses variable like 'ClassName_page'
            $key = get_class($this->owner).'_page';
            if(!empty($_GET[$key]))
            {
                Yii::app()->user->setState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'page', $_GET[$key]);
            }
            elseif (!empty($_GET["ajax"]))
            {
                // page 1 passes no page number, just an ajax flag =-> remove session entry
                unset($_SESSION[Yii::app()->user->getStateKeyPrefix().$this->getStatePrefix().'page']);
            }
            else
            {
                $val = Yii::app()->user->getState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'page');
                if(!empty($val))
                    $_GET[$key] = $val;
            }
 
            // 2. CActiveDataProvider with custom CPagination 
            if(!empty($_GET['page']))
            {
                Yii::app()->user->setState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'page2', $_GET['page']);
            }
            elseif (!empty($_GET["ajax"]))
            {
                // page 1 passes no page number, just an ajax flag =-> remove session entry
                unset($_SESSION[Yii::app()->user->getStateKeyPrefix().$this->getStatePrefix().'page2']);
            }
            else
            {
                $val = Yii::app()->user->getState($this->getStatePrefix() . 'page2');
                if(!empty($val))
                    $_GET['page'] = $val;
            }
 
            if (isset($_GET[get_class($this->owner)]))
            {
                $this->owner->attributes = $_GET[get_class($this->owner)];
                $this->saveSearchValues();
            }
            else
            {
                $this->readSearchValues();
            }
        }
    }

#9829

Pentium10 at 2012/09/13 05:12pm

Moved to GitHub

Code has been moved to GitHub, please kindly contribute to it.

#8448

Daniel at 2012/06/04 06:18pm

default is not working when scenario is set

Hi Pentium10,

I found out that when I set scenario, the default is no longer working. If I remove the setRememberScenario, it works again. Could you help with this?

Regards,

Daniel

#8364

ragua at 2012/05/29 04:10am

Remembering the page

thanks for this great extension. I found a way to remember the page number (i'm not the author) at this address: http://www.stupidannoyingproblems.com/2012/04/yii-grid-view-remembering-filters-pagination-and-sort-settings/

#6726

jmariani at 2012/02/01 09:56am

Adding support to remeber sorting and active pager page

Hi, Lubos.

Can you explain / provide example?

Thank you.

#6170

lubosdz at 2011/12/16 07:45am

Adding support to remeber sorting and active pager page

Hi, I think you can pretty easily add support for remebering sorting order and active page in pager like so:

// store also sorting order
$key = get_class($this).'_sort'; // e.g. Model_sort
if(!empty($_GET[$key])){
    $this->sort = $_GET[$key]; // update sorting key
}elseif(!empty($this->sort)){
    $_GET[$key] = $this->sort; // set latest sorting key
}
 
// store active page in page
$key = get_class($this).'_page'; // e.g. Model_page
if(!empty($_GET[$key])){
    $this->page = $_GET[$key]; // update current active page
}elseif(!empty($this->page)){
    $_GET[$key] = $this->page; // set latest active page
}

This should be placed into Model::search() function, whereas Model has two additional filter variables "sort" and "page".

Lubos

#5661

jpablo at 2011/10/29 11:54pm

Persist the state in database

Would be great to persist de filter state in the database instead of the user session. This feature may enable the user to keep the prefered filters between sessions and between several computers.

#4531

Pentium10 at 2011/07/17 03:30pm

pagination and sorting is for future

@bas_vdl This extension is designed to remember filter's values, sorting and pagination are other layers and probably will need a separate extension.

#4530

bas_vdl at 2011/07/17 03:13pm

remember the page

it doesn't remember the page. using the latest vesion of yii...

#3882

Pentium10 at 2011/05/17 01:38pm

add cgridview id to the memory unique state label

@laqrhead You can alter the code of the extension and implement the gridview and model id. I will release in the upcoming days an update, that will include a configurable parameter to override the ID of the memory and other requested changes and bug fixes.

#3881

laqrhead at 2011/05/17 01:30pm

Great extension.

This is a great extension, thanks.

I have two different views that each have a CGridView for the same model (different layout). When I filter in one view, the values are then "remembered" in the other view. Do you know if there is a way to disable the "memory" in a specific CGridView? I quickly looked at the source, perhaps using the CGridView id instead of the modelName would work in the getState/setState? What do you think?

#3811

GvWP at 2011/05/09 05:07pm

Thanx

This is what I needed. Seems to be working fine.

#3013

jule at 2011/03/08 03:11am

Great!

That's exactly what I was looking for!!

#2991

Pentium10 at 2011/03/06 12:42pm

Updated the extension to include defaults

@adinugro I've updated the extension to include support for defaults. Please setup the behavior in your model file, and there you can now set defaults. Donation is welcome for implementing this functionality in for you.

#2981

Daniel at 2011/03/04 09:20pm

indeed helpful and easy to use

@jeremy: your idea is great, but how to handle model? should we also create parent model with the behavior method like above than inherits our model to this parent model?

I have a problem, my current actionAdmin() is

if(isset($_GET['Company']))
    $model->attributes=$_GET['Company'];
else
    $model->status=Company::ACTIVE;

my idea is to return only active companies in the gridview. after using this extensions how could I achieve it? hoe could I set default status = active in my admin?

thx a lot

#2800

jeremy at 2011/02/11 08:55pm

very helpful and easy to use

I added this behavior in the parent class for all my models; and then removed the actionAdmin from all my controllers and put it in the parent class (e.g. MyController) from which all my controllers descend. Now every admin page has this behavior. Quite simple.

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