How to get data from a form?

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1

I’m new to Yii2 and PHP in general. I searched everywhere and can’t find the answear.
This is my ClientController:

   public function actionCreate()
{
    $model = new Client;
    $model2 = new Address;
    $model->getErrors();

    if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post(),'') &&  $model2->load(Yii::$app->request->post(),'')) {
    
       /* ALL VELUES ARE BEING  NULL, IT DOESN'T GET ANY VALUES THAT I INFORMED TO IT
         echo "<pre>";
        var_dump($model2);
        die;    */

        $client = Yii::$app->request->post();

        $model->nome = $client['nome'];
        $model->e_mail = $client['e_mail'];
        $model->rg = $client['rg'];
        
        $address = Yii::$app->request->post('Address');

        $model2->street = $address['street'];
        $model2->number = $address['number'];
        $model2->neighborhood = $address['neighborhood'];
        $model2->active = $address['active'];

        if ($model->validate() && $model2->validate()) {

            $model->save();
            $model2->client_id = $model->id;
            $model2->save();

            return $this->redirect(['index', 'id' => $model->id]);
        }
    }

    return $this->render('create', [
        'model' => $model, 'model2' => $model2 
    ]);
}
2

Hi,

did you look into the load() method what it is doing?
You call it’s second parameter as empty. So there is no formName ever given!
Do this:

if ( $model->load( Yii::$app->request->post() ) &&  $model2->load( Yii::$app->request->post() ) ) {
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3

Then the IF condition becomes false :confused:

4

Hi @pinhak, welcome to the forum.

Have you read the following section of the guide?
Guide > Getting Data from Users > Getting Data for Multiple Models

The guide is for actionUpdate, but the basic concept is the same for actionCreate. It should be like the following:

    public function actionCreate()
    {
        $user = new User();
        $profile = new Profile();
        
        $user->scenario = 'create';
        $profile->scenario = 'create';
        
        if ($user->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $profile->load(Yii::$app->request->post())) {
            $isValid = $user->validate();
            $isValid = $profile->validate() && $isValid;
            if ($isValid) {
                $user->save(false);
                $profile->user_id = $user->id;
                $profile->save(false);
                return $this->redirect(['user/view', 'id' => $id]);
            }
        }
        
        return $this->render('create', [
            'user' => $user,
            'profile' => $profile,
        ]);
    }

And the view script would be:

$form = ActiveForm::begin([
    'id' => 'user-create-form',
    'options' => ['class' => 'form-horizontal'],
]) ?>
    <?= $form->field($user, 'username') ?>

    ...other input fields...
    
    <?= $form->field($profile, 'website') ?>

    <?= Html::submitButton('Create', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary']) ?>
<?php ActiveForm::end() ?>

You could replace User and Profile with your Client and Address.

5

Got it. It was lack of attention. My _form had two ActiveForm::begin