Yiimongodbsuite And Dropdown Lists

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

does anybody know how to populate a dropdown list with a mongodb collection?




$list = CHtml::listData($industryModels, '_id', 'name');

echo $form->dropDownListRow($model, 'industry_id', $list);'

wont work because


_id

is a mongoId object and toString is not automatically called. i get the following error:

PHP warning Illegal offset type…which based on the stack-trace means an object cannot be used as an array key.

so how do i get the mongoId string to use as the key in the dropdown list???

2

you could add virtual attribute to your model:




function getStringId() {

   return $this->_id->toString();

}

and use it in CHtml::listData($industryModels, ‘stringId’, ‘name’);

3

redguy solved half of my problem - the other half is sometimes the dropdown will not select the correct item if the model’s attribute is not stringified. So something like this helps out:


$model->industry_id = (string) $model->industry_id;

echo $form->dropDownListRow($model, 'industry_id', $list);

Or you just set up your model’s afterFind() method to stringify the IDs, and the beforeSave() method to re-MongoIdify them. :)