link a specific Controller action to submit button

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I am new to yii, and I try to avoid using the default action indexAction() when the user submits the search form. I created a searchAction() to handle the search logic but i don’t know how to call it after the user clicks the submit button.

Any help?

thanks in advance.

Ilias

2

Did you code it from scratch? well you could try changing the “action” attribute of your form. :)

3

I wanted that after submitting the form

<?php echo CHtml::beginForm(); ?>

form fields

<?php echo CHtml::endForm(); ?>

I can call actionSearch() function of the SiteController.php.

how can I change the action attribute of the form to call the actionSearch() function?

Thanks in advance.

4

The first parameter of CHtml::beginForm is the form’s action. You need to pass the uri you want to post to as that, either as a static string or using the createUrl() functionality.


CHtml::beginForm( $this->createUrl( 'search' ) );
5

Say_Ten is correct. In addition, you may want to make the method as “get” since you don’t actually post to the database.


CHtml::beginForm($this->createUrl('search'), 'get');

please see the documentation for more information about the function :)

6

it works! Thanks Say_Ten & levz :)

All the best! ;)