I need to implement DB lookup field and am trying to make use of CJuiAutoComplete widget. I need the widget to fetch data from the following URL: www/controller/action/ID/?term=<query>. That is I need the request to come to an action handler similar to actionView, which accepts a numerical paramater ID (if it could be a string, it would be better, but I decided to start from a simplified implementation).
When I define CJuiAutoComplete in my form as the following:
$this->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiAutoComplete', array(
'source' => $this->createUrl('price/lookup/1'),...
I’ve got an error “Invalid request” in logs, with the following URL (www/price/lookup/1?term=xxx), which is correct in the sense that I want it to be like this. But Yii does not apparently like it.
If I change the form to have:
$this->widget('zii.widgets.jui.CJuiAutoComplete', array(
'source' => $this->createUrl('price/lookup'),...
the request is handled normally by Yii (URL is www/price/lookup?term=xxx), but I do not receive the ID which I need to pass.
The question is how to setup Yii in order to accept the required URL for autocompletion? I think this is somehow related to the main configuration file, and specifically urlManager’s rules, but I don’t know what to write there to fix the problem. Currently I have standard configuration:
'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules'=>array(
'site/page/<view:\w+>' => 'site/page',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
),
),
URLs with controller/action/id are accepted. Also I do not see here any special case for URLs with “?param=value” part in the line where controller/action rule is defined, nevertheless it accepts “?param=value” in the case when I don’t provide the ID.
Could someone shed some light on this?