There are cases that model validators should be depended by controller/action and you couldn't manipulate on the model class or using scenarios in easy way
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Add model validator in Controller
Created 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz),
updated 9 years ago by Kostas Apazidis (KonApaz).
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Where to implement knowledge about the addresses of the controller?
Knowledge is necessary to determine the address of the controller in a single layer system. This allows you to quickly search and painlessly produce refactoring controllers and their addresses.
Take more control of CGridview and model searching (related model or another controller)
Suppose you have an Application in Yii that manages hotels each one has many customers.
Yii HMVC
what i am going to introduce is a coding style that will result into a single page generated from different requests like in the example below this makes the specific request reusable instead of just an action being accessible to the controller in which the widgets are created
Using events with CAction classes
As you know, events are used by: