Issue with CActiveRecord findAll

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I have been scouring docs, examples…all say the same thing. findAll should return an array of results, however when I do it I get an object. Inside of my Location controller, I am calling:




$dealers = Dealer::model()->findAll();

Which I would expect an array of all dealers back, however I get:


Array

(

    [0] => Dealer Object

        (

            [_md:CActiveRecord:private] => CActiveRecordMetaData Object

                (

                    [tableSchema] => CMysqlTableSchema Object

                        (

                            [schemaName] => 

                            [name] => dealer

                            [rawName] => `dealer`

                            [primaryKey] => id

                            [sequenceName] => 

                            [foreignKeys] => Array

                                (

                                )

 

                            [columns] => Array

I am a Yii noob, so please excuse my ignorance.

Jim

2

You are getting back an array of results, but the results are model objects themselves. In your case, an array of Dealer model objects.

So,


$dealers[0]

would be a single dealer object. For example, if your dealer table has a firstname column, you could access this attribute of the first dealer object returned in the result set via:


$dealers[0]->firstname;
3

Awesome, thanks so much!!!