Editing the default User table

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hi!

I’m trying to add some fields to the User table that comes with the initial migration of the Advanced template. I already added the extra fields on the User model:




public $name;

public $surname;

and the rules for those fields




[['name', 'surname'], 'required'],

and also aded the fields on the form:




<?= $form->field($model, 'name') ?>

<?= $form->field($model, 'surname') ?>

but when I try to create or update the data in the table (using the CRUD generated by the Gii tool) the extra fields are still empty. Do I need to add something else to the model?

2

Remove them. ActiveRecord uses some runtime introspection magic, if you add new columns to the table, they will appear in your model automatically as public properties.

3

I tried modifying the tables on the database but I it seams not to be aware of those changes… I’m using mamp, should I restart the server after altering the database tables?

4

No, just flush/delete schema cache if enabled.

5

Thanks!!!