using $_GET to affect a required model field

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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First of all I’d like to inform you that I’m a complete noob to Yii and I have this problem:

I’m trying to create a new record using $_GET to have a required model field affected. I wrote this :


$model->IdUsager = $_GET["idu"];

in the _form.php in the view.

With


echo $model->IdUsager;

I was able to confirm that the value has been set in IdUsager but since it’s a required field in the model I keep having a validation error: “Id Usager cannot be blank.”

So I tried to remove the required condition in rule() in the model but then I had an SQL exception because the field was left empty!

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks a lot.

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Thanks to mdomba who answered my PM with this valuable info :

And that was the fix to my problem.

Thanks again mdomba.

Regards.

Mohamed Y.

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First of all using $model->IdUsager=$_GET[‘idu’] is a bad practice… you need to check that $_GET[‘idu’] has an intended value or sanitize that value…

As you are new to the framework… if you haven’t already… read the Definitive guide to Yii - http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/

and create a new webapp with yiic shell… then study that code… many things will be more clear to you…

3

Thank you for your reply, and yes I’m a complete noob on Yii and I have read most of the complete guide but I’m not able to find in it what I’m trying to do. So any other suggestions?

Regards.

Mohamed Y.

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Do not just read the guide… make the test application… study the generated code…

After that… if you want to study Yii more … there si the Yii blog tutorial…