I have been to many forums but this. You need some assistance but none to assist.
I have been to many forums but this. You need some assistance but none to assist.
What kind of assistance do you need?
I have created a table category. It has Id, name, created_by, created_at entries. when i want to create the category I am supposed to fill the created_by and created_at. How can the form pick automatically the created_by which is the current user logged in and created_at the current time when i save the form.
Example
Hello, for getting ID of currently logged in user you can call Yii::$app->user->id
And for current time you can use PHP function, for example:
$dt = new DateTime();
$dt->format(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’);
You can set these values as default values for input fields for attributes created_at and created_by. If you want to remain these field invisible to user make them with class Html::activeHiddenInput() Or you can assign these values elsewhere - in Controller action or Model beforeValidate() for example.
More info:
https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/2.0/yii-web-application#$user-detail
https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.format.php
