loadData() method of CForm never mentioned in Working with forms guide

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi, sorry for my english and any other mistake.

I sarted working with forms following this online tutorial:

/doc/guide/1.1/en/form.builder (it seems i am not allowed to embed urls…)

There are very simple and useful code examples (thanks for that), but the loadData() method that, unless i am wrong, is necessary to put form data in related model, is never used, and nowhere in the guide I found a reference to that needle.

This stopped me until, watching code, i realized something was missing.

I think somebody should add it to the guide in order to prevent further time losses.

Thanks for listening,

Davide

EDIT:: uh… now it seems to work without loadData()…

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Usually data are retrived from the database with ActiveRecord.

Take a look to the Gii generated controller/view, you will notice how the usual workflow proceed without loadData (in fact, I discoverd only today the existance of this needle).

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It turned out that the submitted() method calls (or does the same tasks of) loadData(). My code didn’t work due to another validation that i requested calling validate() before submitted()

Anyway, thanks for your answer!