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CGridView is a one of most flexible widgets in Yii and example its flexibility is CButtonColumn used to build buttons for steering model in each grid row. Here in this how-to we will explain ways user can customize CButtonColumn to flexibly fit it to its needs.

Lets say we have two models and relation between them:

If you have to display a overview of related data in a table, you can use the CListView, create your view with table/tr/td tags and implement db-queries in the view to display detaildata of the current (master-)record.

I have had to do this a couple of times now so I figured I would share it with the community. I am going to keep this short because I really hope that you are familiar with jQueryUI's Sortable class before starting this tutorial.

CGridView (or CListView) together with CActiveDataProvider is a very powerful combination of the built-in tools of Yii. But how do they work together to accomplish their fantastic functions? And what are you expected to do to use them and to customize their behaviors? This article explains the very basics of them.

Let's say we have two models and relation between them:

This wiki has been updated on 21 May 2012 with the new MODEL METHOD. Please note that the old CONTROLLER METHOD has been removed from this document.

This tip created in conjunction with IRC #yii channel users emilsedgh and tydeas - thanks!

This is what I did. Its the EASIEST solution that I know of. I just reused the advanced search done in CGridView.

Since I used CGridView for a first time, I didn't like how it handled operations like sorting, filtering, changing page and etc using AJAX.