Why two types of models (form and active records) ?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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What is the purpose of yii giving two types of models, one for form and other for active records which involves db actions?

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CActiveRecord is a model related to a database table, it has the functions for manage a model (rules, activeLabels) and the functions for work with database (find, save, delete).

CFormModel is a model without database, it has only the first functions (rules, activeLabels)

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You may check out the description in the guide: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.model

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thank you… zaccaria & Y!! got the point!!