I have a table “school_year” that has id & description (… ,‘2013-2014’,‘2014-2015’) fields. I want a dropdown list on every page (figured i’d set it on main.php). I have a model SchoolYear.php.
On my SiteController I grabbed all the school years after successful login. (is this correct place for this?)
How/where should I create the dropdownlist? Is main.php the wrong place?
Eventually I want to set the "selected_school_year" in session var and change when someone switches school_year.
Should I use active form on main.php?
I am new to yii (using v2) so any help is greatly appreciated.
Yes that is a perfectly acceptable place for that. For example I just completed a project where the site has a franchise selector that shows up on every page and so I put it in the main.php layout file and works perfectly.
Thanks for the reply. So on main, should I "use app\models\SchoolYear" and generate the list or do it on the SiteController/login and save to session? (in your opinion)…
Thanks for your input. I have this working fine now.
Now I need to set a session variable for “selectedSchoolYear” so if a user changes school years, they can view data from that year instead. I would normally use jquery/ajax to do this, but don’t know the Yii2 way. There is not much documentation on jquery/ajax integration yet, any pointers?
Edit: I also wish to reload the current page so it will use the updated session information. I
Its perfectly acceptable to use the Ajax/Javascript method. Unless you want to create a form and do a submit with the new school year. But that would force a full screen refresh. Unless you use Pjax. But that’s a whole different thing altogether.
So I’d definitely go the Javascritp/ajax route. You can do a quick update of some data in the browser and on the server set the session information so that for subsequent page loads the session data will have the correct information.
