Create New Object With Pre-Filled Foreign Key Field

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi, i would like to add a button in a view to create a new object with pre-filled foreign key field.

For example:

Customer view for customer "John Smith", id=2.

->link-> new Order

->Order with the customer already filled (id=2)

I know i could create another action in the controller for that, but i would like to use the Create Order action and view.

How can i achieve that?

Thanks in advance

2

I need to do exact the same, if u find the best way to do it plz share what u did… :rolleyes:

3

I don’t know if I understood you well, but I think you’re looking for this:




public function actionCreate($id) {


    $model = new Order;

    $model->customer_id = $id;


}

You can do exactly the same with any action you want.

4

Iam new to yii and php like 3 weeks, soo i dont undertands how that code exactly works, can you plz explain a bit… ???

sorry for my bad english btw :D

5

You have you actionCreate and you access to it like this yourwebsite.com/controllerID/create so if you add a parameter called id to that actionCreate method, you will have to access to the url like this yourwebsite.com/controllerID/create/5 or yourwebsite.com/controllerID/create/id/5.

And with this piece of code:




public function actionCreate($id) {

     $model = new Order;

     $model->customer_id = $id;

}

You fill customer_id with the parameter you passed to the url.

By the way, that kind of url will work only if you have configured your urls as path.

6

Thanks a lot Alex its working… :D

7

Thanks!

8

I want to add something for anyone who might have the same question:

You can also let users create the object without choosing the foreign key like this:


public function actionCreate($id = NULL) {


    $model = new Order;

    $model->customer_id = $id;


}

This way if anyone will use the url yoursite/yourobject/create it will work and the field won’t be pre-filled.