findOne doesn't return ActiveRecord?

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

I’m switching from yii1 to yii2 and have a small question, I’m currently trying to access a users email with different ways:

#1

$user = new User();

$user->email // this works

#2

$user = User::findOne($id)->email // this also works

#3

$user = User::findOne($id);

$user->email // could someone explain me why I can’t access the email of the model here?

2

because of identityClass .

My link .

I create a another model for the user table like UserModel using Gii for accessing the data from user table.

3

I don’t think the identityclass is the problem here, because I have the same issue no matter what model I use.

4

Hi,

Which version of Yii are you using?

Do you receive any error?

Or is it possible that you have simply forgotten to echo the variable?

I have just tested in app/views/site/about.php




use app\models\User; 


$user = User::findOne(1); 

echo $user->email;

Result:

Regards

5

It’s very strange. I also think that this should work.

Probably you have to give us more detailed code explaining your problem.

6

Sorry guys, it seems this was related to phpstorm, somehow it doesn’t show the email property, but when executing the code it’s working fine. Haven’t had something like that before.

7

It’s because phpStorm has no measure to know what class the variable “$user” is.

Try to tell phpStorm the variable type by a comment.




/* @var $user User */ // this tells phpStorm the variable $user is of User model

$user = User::findOne($id);

echo $user->email;