Gii-generated form view doesn’t work (for me)

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi, I’m new to this forum and Yii. Here’s my question as posted at stackoverflow.com but got no answers:

I’m using Yii, and used the Gii code generator to generate a form from a Model.

I’m loading the view this way:


public function actionIndex()

{

	$this->render( 'index', array(

		'form'=> $this->renderPartial( 'the_form', NULL, true )

		) );

}

The form view is structured this way:


<?php $form = $this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(

	'id'=>'the_form',

	'enableAjaxValidation'=>false,

)); ?>

<div class="row">

	<?php echo $form->textField($model,'IdUser'); ?>

	<?php echo $form->error($model,'IdUser'); ?>

</div>

[...]

But I get an error from the textField() method:


get_class() expects parameter 1 to be object, null given


At: /yiiframework/web/helpers/CHtml.php(1894)


Stack trace:  

#0 /yiiframework/web/helpers/CHtml.php(1894): get_class()

#1 /yiiframework/web/helpers/CHtml.php(1870): resolveName()

#2 /yiiframework/web/helpers/CHtml.php(1164): resolveNameID()

#3 /yiiframework/web/widgets/CActiveForm.php(374): activeTextField()

#4 /protected/views/resume/resume_form.php(11): CActiveForm->textField()

Ok, the question would be: what’s wrong and how can I fix it?

link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3219875/

Thanks!

2

You need to pass, as parameter 2 to render/renderPartial, an object of a class inherited from CModel (e.g CActiveRecord, CFormModel).

Edit:

You need to declare parameter 2 as array(‘model’=>$whatever). This will define $model in the view.

/Tommy

3

Oh you’re right, I’m using $model in the view but it’s not being passed to it! what a dumb error.

Thanks