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This is bizare

I want a drop down in my form populated from a table

The model is called WebPage.php

in the model I create two functions they are identical except for name

	public function something() 
	{
	$a = $this->findAll();
		return $a;
    }
	public function somethingelse() 
	{
	$a = $this->findAll();
		return $a;
    }

In the form partial view the following code works

<?php
echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model,'KeyphrasePagePage',CHtml::listData(WebPage::model()->something(),'WebPageID','WebPageName'));
 ?>

The following code does not work

<?php
echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model,'KeyphrasePagePage',CHtml::listData(WebPage::model()->somethingelse(),'WebPageID','WebPageName'));
 ?>

It gives the following error

Quote

CException
Description

WebPage does not have a method named "somethingelse".

It's like something is not being re-initialized or something is cached, I am confused!!

I cleared the browser cache. Closed the browser tab, logged out of the session, weird!

Specs:Yii version 1.1a
Server:apache2
OS:linux
Browser:firefox

Thanks for any help you can give me
doodle

[Spyros]

Try deleting the files under the protected/runtime directory
It has happened too me a couple of times after changing some function names

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Spyros, on 24 October 2009 - 01:38 PM, said:

Try deleting the files under the protected/runtime directory
It has happened too me a couple of times after changing some function names

Thanks, I tried what you suggested, but the same result.

I'll keep digging.
doodle

[Spyros]

Maybe you should try

<?php
public static function somethingelse() {
  $a = WebPage::findAll();
  return $a;
}
?>

<?php
echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model,'KeyphrasePagePage',CHtml::listData(WebPage::somethingelse(),'WebPageID','WebPageName'));
 ?>

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Spyros, on 24 October 2009 - 03:13 PM, said:

Maybe you should try

<?php
public static function somethingelse() {
  $a = WebPage::findAll();
  return $a;
}
?>

<?php
echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model,'KeyphrasePagePage',CHtml::listData(WebPage::somethingelse(),'WebPageID','WebPageName'));
 ?>

Thanks spyros, I will try that when I am back at work on Tuesday

doodle

[Spyros]

A correction:
it should be

<?php
public static function somethingelse() {
  $a = WebPage::model()->findAll();
  return $a;
}
?>

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Spyros, on 25 October 2009 - 02:55 AM, said:

A correction:
it should be

<?php
public static function somethingelse() {
  $a = WebPage::model()->findAll();
  return $a;
}
?>

As usual I feel like a complete idiot now that I know what the problem was. I should probably be keeping it simpler while I am learning Yii but I set up my installation according to this cookbook article Organize directories for applications with front-end and back-end. Anyway to make a long story short, I had two model directories /protected/models/ and /protected/backend/models/ I had two WebPage.php files one in each models directory. I seems Yii was reading the /protected/models/ version while I was changing the /protected/backend/models/ version.

Not too smart I did however learn a lot through my investigations, thanks for your help spyros.

doodle