Parent / Child Class In One Form

I am having problem figuring out if this is possible in yii.

In my form i combined two models (parent and child) to create and update.

A parent class can have at least 1 child to maximum of 6 children. I created a number of fields in every instance of the child. I am thinking of creating an array of text fields in every attribute of the child, is that possible?




<?php echo $form->textField($childModel,'item_description[0]',array('size'=>68,'maxlength'=>100)); ?>

<?php echo $form->textField($childModel,'item_description[1]',array('size'=>68,'maxlength'=>100)); ?>

<?php echo $form->textField($childModel,'item_description[2]',array('size'=>68,'maxlength'=>100)); ?>

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In my controller, will for each loop work in traversing those arrays?

Thanks.