[zitter]

Is it possible to display more values in a table cell, using CGridView? For example something like that, in HTML:

<strong>Name Surname</strong>
<br />
<strong>Groups: </strong> Group1, Group2, Group3, etc.

Where 'name', 'surname' and 'groupN' are data taken from model; in this example could be $User->name, $User->surname, $User-groups (joined with N:M relationship).

TIA
Danilo

[Jaz Manister]

zitter, on 06 May 2010 - 09:41 AM, said:

Is it possible to display more values in a table cell, using CGridView? For example something like that, in HTML:

<strong>Name Surname</strong>
<br />
<strong>Groups: </strong> Group1, Group2, Group3, etc.

Where 'name', 'surname' and 'groupN' are data taken from model; in this example could be $User->name, $User->surname, $User-groups (joined with N:M relationship).

TIA
Danilo

Something like this should work for singular properties of the model:

$this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
  'dataProvider'=>$dataProvider,
  'columns'=>array(
    array(
      'name'=>'column_name',
      'type'=>'raw',//this line is vital to have html not show up as text
      'value'=>'"<strong>".$data->name . " " . $data.surname . "</strong>"',
    ),
  ),
));

I'm not sure if this would be the best solution, but to get the group names into a list you could create a function in the model. Here's a rough example.

//model class
public function getGroupNames(){
  $groups = '';
  foreach($this->groups as $group)
    $groups .= $group->name . ' ';
  return $groups;
}

//CGridView
'type'=>'raw',
'value'=>'"<strong>" . $data->name . " " . $data->surname . "</strong><br/><strong>Groups:</strong> " . $data->getGroupNames()',

[Mike]

If you have to render complex layout in a column or want to reuse that column in another project you could create your own column class. It's very easy: Extend it from CGridColumn and override renderDataCellContent.

Check the source of existing columns for examples. E.g. http://code.google.c...CLinkColumn.php .

[zitter]

@jaz: it works perfectly, thanks!

@mike: yes, API is fundamental, but I prefer to see more tutorials for noobie like me. For example, CGridView looks like a very huge and cool class, but it's too difficult for me to look inside the code to "understand" how it works. I'm trying to do that, because I really love this framework, but more tuts make Yii more usable for people like me.
My 2 cents :-)