How to select and use with an alias?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hello.

I have a table with two fields for two languages:




text_en

text_es

I want to select the field, according to the language and this works fine:




$criteria->select = "code,text_$lang,active";

What I would like to do is select the field with an alias and then use that alias to return the value, somthing like this:




$criteria->select = "codigo,text_$lang as text,activo";

.

.

.

echo CHtml::encode($model->text)

But it doesn’t work, I get an error saying “Property “menu.text” is not defined.” (menu is the model)

Is it possible to do what I want?

Thanks!

2

Just add this property to your model:




class Menu extends CActiveRecord

{

    public $text;

}

Or it can be protected, but then you’ll need a getter and a setter.

3

Fantastic!

Thank you!