How to handle post request

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I have a form with 2 differente models, User and Profile. In my controller action I do the following:




$user = new User;

$user->load(Yii::$app->request->post('User'));

But no attributes are assigned to the model. I thought the data may be wrong or something and I checked with:




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

VarDumper::dump($post)

Here $post is an array like this




[

    '_csrf' => '...'

    'Profile' => [

        'attribute' => 'value',

        'attribute2' => 'value2',

        //...

    ]

    'User' => [

        'attribute' => 'value',

        'attribute2' => 'value2',

        //...

    ]

]

So, how do I assign these attributes to their respective model without having to do it one by one?

I guess this is not making any validation before using the save() method because there are some missing attributes that are handled onBeforeSave().

EDIT

Solved




$user->load(Yii::$app->request->post(), 'User');

If the second parameter ($formName) is null it will try to mass assign the whole POST to the model.

But is something about the post( $name = null, $defaultValue = null ) method that I don’t understand.

What does the $name param do? As I understand it’s used to get a specific POST name but looks like it doesn’t.

2

You can just pass the post value in without the second parameter.


$user->load(Yii::$app->request->post());

The load method will find the name required from the model.

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