can't generate dropdownlist with gii or yiic

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

I really like this Framework specially the crud code generator using yiic or gii , but the main problem for me is that all generated form is textboxes only,

for example:

I have two tables one for students and another for countries , when create a new student I want to select country from a dropdownlist.

I don’t know how to configure the yiic or gii to generate dropdownlist for country??.

do i have to rename the fields in database in special way? or what … I need your help please.

thank you in advance.

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I’m pretty sure you have to do this manually.

You just need to use listData. For example, in you controller or view select all available options for dropdown list:




$countries = CHtml::listData(Country::model()->findAll(array('order'=>'name')), 'id', 'countryId');

where id is a primary key in Country table and countryId is a FK (Student table). Then in your view file:




<?php echo CHtml::activeLabelEx($model, "country"); ?>

<?php echo CHtml::activeDropDownList($model, "country", $countries); ?>

Something like this with little changes should work for you.

3

Thank you for your help, your code working fine with me, but I still hope the generator do every thing from the beginning , I think this is very important feature specially with large database.

4

There is gii templates that can do this for you (although i never tried)

http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/gii-template-collection/