Suppose you have an Application in Yii that manages hotels each one has many customers.
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Searching and Sorting by Count of Related Items in CGridView
class Post extends CActiveRecord {
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When you list Authors in grid you would like to print the count of posts in column, allow sorting on this column and probably filtering by the count.