CAutoComplete with Key => Value Pairs

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I am trying to get CAutoComplete to work with Key => Value Pairs so that the field autocompletes the key, but upon form submission the values are returned. As an example:





<?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'fruit_id'); ?>

	<?php 

		// Get the fruits (id, name) data

		$fruits = fruits::model()->findAll();

		$fruit_codes = array();

			foreach($fruits as $fruit)

			{ 

				$fruit_codes[$fruit->name] = $fruit->id;

			}


	

		$this->widget('CAutoComplete', array(

			'model'=>$model,

			'attribute'=>'fruit_id',

			'data'=>$fruit_codes,

			'multiple'=>false,

			'htmlOptions'=>array('size'=>25),

		)); 

	?>

	<?php echo $form->error($model,'fruit_id'); ?>

Is there a way to do this with the CAutoComplete widget? If not, is there an alternative way in Yii of autocompleting keys and returning values withing a form?

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NOTE: moved to proper section (General Discussion for Yii 1.1.x instead of Bug Discussion)