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If you are coming over from Yii 1 - the concepts of tabular data handling remain the same as mentioned in the [Yii 1.x guide - collecting tabular input section](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/form.table "").

The only differences in Yii 2 is that its much simpler due to available functions in the Model class for loading and validating models.

### OPTION 1: USING A PREBUILT SOLUTION
You can use a prebuilt solution to render and manage tabular data. You can use the [TabularForm widget](http://demos.krajee.com/builder-details/tabular-form "") or [yii2-dynamicform](https://github.com/wbraganca/yii2-dynamicform).

### OPTION 2: DOING IT YOURSELF
You can use the same concepts as mentioned in the guide link mentioned before - here are the changes you need to do for Yii 2:

To work with tabular input, we first need to create or populate an array of model instances, depending on whether we are inserting or updating the data. We then retrieve the user input data from the `$_POST` variable and assign it to each model. A slight difference from single model input is that we retrieve the input data using $_POST['ModelClass'][$i] instead of $_POST['ModelClass'].
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Written by: Kartik V
Last updated by: Said Bakr
Created on: May 6, 2014
Last updated: 8 years ago
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