[Extension] - Settings

Hi,

I’m using the settings (http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/settings/) extension to manage the app settings that should be configurable by admin. I’m using tabular input method to get/set settings in a bulk manner. Since I’m collecting the setting inputs from user & using the tabular input, I’m not able to use the settings extension’s native get/set method because it serializes and unserializes when setting & retrieving.

Here’s my settings controller code:

$settings	=	Setting::model()->findAll();

		

		if(isset($_POST['Setting']))

		{

			$valid	=	true;

			

			foreach($settings as $i => $setting)

			{

				if(isset($_POST['Setting'][$i]))

					$setting->attributes	=	$_POST['Setting'][$i];				

				

				$valid	=	$setting->validate() && $valid;

			}

			

			if($valid)

			{

				foreach($settings as $i => $setting)

				{

					if(isset($_POST['Setting'][$i]))

						$setting->attributes	=	$_POST['Setting'][$i];				


					$setting->save();

				}				

			}

		}

<!-- Settings form -->

<?php foreach($settings as $i => $setting):?>

<?php echo $form->errorSummary($setting); ?>


<div class="row">

	<?php echo $form->labelEx($setting,"[$i]category"); ?>	

	<?php echo $form->labelEx($setting,"[$i]key"); ?>

</div>


<div class="row">

	<?php echo $form->labelEx($setting,"[$i]value"); ?>

	<?php echo $form->textField($setting,"[$i]value"); ?>

	<?php echo $form->error($setting,"[$i]value"); ?>

</div>

<?php endforeach;?>


<?php echo CHtml::submitButton('Submit'); ?>

<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>

I also have a setting model associated with it. To automatically serialize/unserialize I think I need to have a behavior that mimics the extensions logic to automatically does this conversion, but not sure. Can anyone help on this regard? Or how do you create an interface for this setting?