How to use findAll() to retrieve all fields

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,

		));

	}

}



Hello and welcome to Yii.


<?php echo $form->dropDownList($model_auth_assignment, 'itemname',

                               CHtml::listData(AuthItem::model()->findAll(), 'id', 'name')

                              ); ?>

I had to change ‘id’ to ‘name’, but then it worked. Thanks!