Today i want to share with you is "How can we write HTML Code in view files? I am writing this article because many times we can not use CActiveForm to design our form...
here i am going to show you simple User Cread(add) operation with plain HTML...
create new create.php file inside user directory.
$error= $model->getErrors(); <form method="post" action="<?php echo Yii::app()->getBaseUrl(true).'/index.php/admin/user/create'?>" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <div class="row"> <label>Email</label> <input type="text" name="email" value="<?php echo $model->email; ?>"/> <span><?php if(isset($error['email'])) echo $error['email'][0]; </span> </div> <div class="row"> <label>Password</label> <input type="password" name="password"/> <span><?php if(isset($error['password'])) echo $error['password'][0]; </span> </div> <div class="row"> <label>Employee Id</label> <input type="text" name="employeeid" value="<?php echo $model->employeeid; ?>"/> <span><?php if(isset($error['employeeid'])) echo $error['employeeid'][0]; </span> </div> <div class="row"> <label>Designation</label> <input type="text" name="designation" value="<?php echo $model->designation; ?>"/> <span><?php if(isset($error['designation'])) echo $error['designation'][0]; </span> </div> <div class="row"> <label>Manager</label> <input type="text" name="manager" value="<?php echo $model->manager; ?>"/> <span><?php if(isset($error['manager'])) echo $error['manager'][0]; </span> </div> <div class="row"> <label>Profile Pic</label> <input type="file" name="profilepic"/> <span><?php if(isset($error['profilepic'])) echo $error['profilepic'][0]; </span> </div> <?php echo CHtml::submitButton($model->isNewRecord ? 'Create' : 'Save'); </form>
Form Explanation
i want to focus on the following two things here..
1. $error= $model->getErrors();
this we are using to retrieve errors which is generated by our model class **rules** method. if it contains error then it will print error to their respective fields by this statement.
if(isset($error['email'])) echo $error['email'][0];
pretty cool !
2. action="<?php echo Yii::app()->getBaseUrl(true).'/index.php/admin/user/create'?>"
this we are using to send out form data to the our controllers so further we can deal with our form data. i think it is pretty straight forward.
Now i will show how our controller method should look like?
public function actionCreate() { $model=new User; // Uncomment the following line if AJAX validation is needed // $this->performAjaxValidation($model); if(Yii::app()->request->isPostRequest) { $model->profilepic = CUploadedFile::getInstanceByName('profilepic'); $model->attributes=$_POST; if($model->save()) { print_r($model->profilepic); $model->profilepic->saveAs(Yii::app()->basePath.'/../uploads/admin/profile/'.$model->profilepic); $this->redirect(array('create','msg'=>'Successfully Created User')); } } $this->render('create',array( 'model'=>$model, )); }
Controller Explanation
let's focus on the following one thing :
- if(Yii::app()->request->isPostRequest) here you should use isPostRequest to check and retrieve the form data. and if it is set then retrieve it by $_POST.
pretty easy !
And you are done !!!!