Trying To Acess Other Model And Make Changes To It From Controller

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I have a strange scenario due to the way the old software was set up

due to customers wanting their job numbers starting from a certain number i.e 500

When saving a new job i have to look into another table for the associated job number for that customer

and place it in the record

then increment the number (that i have just used ) by 1 in the ‘jobno’ table ready for use the next time

i have all the relationships set up and i thought that i could simply use

$model->job_no = $model->customer->jobNos->Jobno; for the first part

where customer and jobNos are relationship names but this gives me an error "Trying to get property of non-object"

However it can be simply displayed that way in a view

Any ideas as to how i could accomplish both parts of this problem ?

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What are your relation exactly in your model, and in table link to costumer relation.

"Trying to get property of non-object" means $model->job_no or $model->customer or $model->customer->jobNos are not existing object property.

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Thanks for the reply , i have job model with the following relations


'customer' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'Customers', 'customer_ID'),

and in the customer model the relationships are




'jobs' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Jobs', 'customer_ID'),  

'jobNos' => array(self::HAS_ONE, 'JobNo', 'Customer_ID'),

'warranties' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Warranty', 'customer_ID'),

'contacts' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Contacts', 'customer_ID'),

Note that the relationship for ‘jobNos’ i changed to HAS_ONE from HAS_MANY as this made more sense

the funny thing is that in a view related to the jobcontroller i can do this


<?php echo CHtml::encode($model->customer->jobNos->JobNo  ); ?>

and it will display the correct number

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I guess the real question here is should i be able to do this ?


$model->relationname1->relationname2->value_i_need

Because i’m struggling to get it