yii blog tutorial question.

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I am reading the yii framework blog tutorial on

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/blog/1.1/en/post.model

However, I am not sure what the code below do.

foreach($models as $model)


            self::$_items[$type][$model->code]=$model->name;


    }

in the loaditem static function.

 self::$_items[$type][$model->code]=$model->name;

Where do [$model->code] and $model->name come from and what does this line of code do?

Thanks for help.

2

In the Overall Design section of the blog tutorial you’ll find the informations about the lookup table.

I’ll try to explain:




private static function loadItems($type)

{

    self::$_items[$type]=array(); // init an empty array inside the $_items array with key $type


    // Get all lookups for the passed $type e.g. with $type = 'PostStatus' you get all

    // available stati for posts, wiith $type = 'CommentStatus' you get all

    // availabel stati for comments.

    $models=self::model()->findAll(array(

        'condition'=>'type=:type',

        'params'=>array(':type'=>$type),

        'order'=>'position',

    ));


    // Loop over the result from the db. $model represents one row in the lookup table and the informations are

    // accessible via $model->code, $model->name, etc. cause the data was fetched from the db via Acitve Record.

    foreach($models as $model)

        self::$_items[$type][$model->code]=$model->name;


    // Finally the $_items array (=self:$_items) contains e.g. the following values

    // self::$_items['PostStatus'][1] = 'Draft'

    // self::$_items['PostStatus'][2] = 'Some Post Status'

    // ...

}

Cause the functions are all static you can later use e.g. in a view




Lookup::items(...)

// or

Lookup::item(..,...)

like in the Post admin view.

3

i have made a website in yii… and also merged the yii blog in it… i want to use two themes , one for default website and one for the blog, can i do this?