Creating model from string - equivalent to old CActiveRecord::model function

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Hi,

In Yii 1 you could generate a model instance from a string eg




$modelName = 'Page';

$id = 1;


$model = CActiveRecord::model($modelName)->findByPk($id);

in Yii2 I can’t find an equivalent to the model method - does anyone how to do this?

Many thanks!

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$modelName = 'app\models\Page';

$modelName::findOne($id);
3

doh, that was easy lol - many thanks!

4

You should read this ;)

5

Thanks Timmy - have been through the docs - just getting a bit tangled up with how things were done in the old days :rolleyes: