The Gii provides a web interface that allows us to use the generators.
Taking the model generator as an example, I already have the inputs in an array:
$arr=array(
array('user','User'),
array('post','Post'),
array('comment','Comment'),
//many table name and model name pairs go below
);
Rather than entering these data manually in the Gii web interface, I would like to directly supply them to the model generator.
Although I know the code files for model generator are located in framework/gii/generators/model, I can hardly find any function that takes a table name and model name as the parameters.
How can we directly use the Gii generators in our codes?
The generator uses the ModelCode.php (extends CCodeModel) as input from the gii form.
The CCodeGenerator.php creates the ModelCode instance and assigns the attributes tableName, modelClass … from the submitted $_POST.
So you have to create the ModelCode instance manually, set the attributes (see CCodeGenerator.prepare) and start the code generation like CCodeGenerator.actionCode.