display more than one model on a CGridView

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

Imagine I’d like to show on a grid the last 5 posts of a user. Each row of the grid shows a post. Additionally, for every post I’d like to have subrows, each one showing one person involved in the post at a time.

The models I have are Post and User. I mapped posts and users and pass it as an array to the CGridView with no luck.

So, is it posible to display data from more than one model on a CGridView?

Thanks

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I’m not terribly familiar with the CGridView but instead of using the CActiveDataProvider in your controller you could use a CSqlDataProvider and write a custom query. You’re not taking advantage of the model architecture then but it would allow you to do what you’re asking.

-Nazum

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nazum, thanks. I’ll look into it and get back.

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There is an example in this thread.

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thanks enfield. Not exactly what I need it but I learned a lot from it.

Anyway, I think is best if I close this thread since I explain the whole problem properly here

thanks