I am new to Yii, and I have a simple question.
I am trying to get an array of all "names" in a database table AuthItem so that these "names" can populate a form drop down. I am using the findAll() method of CActiveRecord. The problem is that it is returning an empty array.
Here is the portion of the view code where I call findALL(). (This is returning empty even though the table is not empty.)
echo $form->dropDownList($model_auth_assignment, 'itemname', AuthItem::model()->findALL('name'));?>
Here is the AuthItem.php model:
/**
* This is the model class for table "AuthItem".
*
* The followings are the available columns in table 'AuthItem':
* @property string $name
* @property integer $type
* @property string $description
* @property string $bizrule
* @property string $data
*/
class AuthItem extends CActiveRecord
{
/**
* Returns the static model of the specified AR class.
* @param string $className active record class name.
* @return AuthItem the static model class
*/
public static function model($className=__CLASS__)
{
return parent::model($className);
}
/**
* @return string the associated database table name
*/
public function tableName()
{
return 'AuthItem';
}
/**
* @return array validation rules for model attributes.
*/
public function rules()
{
// NOTE: you should only define rules for those attributes that
// will receive user inputs.
return array(
array('name, type', 'required'),
array('type', 'numerical', 'integerOnly'=>true),
array('name', 'length', 'max'=>64),
array('description, bizrule, data', 'safe'),
// The following rule is used by search().
// Please remove those attributes that should not be searched.
array('name, description, data', 'safe', 'on'=>'search'),
);
}
/**
* @return array relational rules.
*/
public function relations()
{
// NOTE: you may need to adjust the relation name and the related
// class name for the relations automatically generated below.
return array(
);
}
/**
* @return array customized attribute labels (name=>label)
*/
public function attributeLabels()
{
return array(
'name' => 'Name',
'type' => 'Type',
'description' => 'Description',
'bizrule' => 'Bizrule',
'data' => 'Data',
);
}
/**
* Retrieves a list of models based on the current search/filter conditions.
* @return CActiveDataProvider the data provider that can return the models based on the search/filter conditions.
*/
public function search()
{
// Warning: Please modify the following code to remove attributes that
// should not be searched.
$criteria=new CDbCriteria;
$criteria->compare('name',$this->name,true);
$criteria->compare('description',$this->description,true);
$criteria->compare('data',$this->data,true);
return new CActiveDataProvider($this, array(
'criteria'=>$criteria,
));
}
}