Gii/giix Model And Crud

[ewbarnard]

Larry,

 

Concerning Chapter 4, Generating Code with Gii (p. 69ff):

 

In the tip at the end of the chapter (p. 76), you mention ways to customize Gii. This would be a great place to mention the Giix extension which you do describe later in your book.

 

I use giix exclusively, and am extremely pleased. I find that I'm often tweaking table schema during development, and giix allows me to regenerate the base model without touching the model code that I write.

 

Another item worth mentioning with respect to Giix: Here are a couple of low-impact ways to override the base model functions.

 

Example 1. To add to the base rules, without copying the entire set of rules:

 

    public function rules() {        $rules = parent::rules();        $rules[] = array('filename', 'file',                          'allowEmpty' => false,                          'types' => 'csv',                         'wrongType' => 'The load file must be .csv',                         );        return $rules;    }

With the above, you can regenerate the base model class with giix, and not have to re-edit your rules() method.

 

Example 2. Tweak one of the attribute labels. Again, this allows you to tweak a single label without copying the entire attributeLabels() method, and therefore not having to edit anything if you re-generate the base model class:

 

    public function attributeLabels() {        $labels = parent::attributeLabels();        $labels['filename'] = Yii::t('app', 'Load File');        return $labels;    }

 

[Larry]

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and experiences. I really appreciate it. I'll considering making different changes or recommendations when I do a final pass through on th ebook. 

[faraihuruba]

i am failing to access the Gii from this url : http://localhost/yii/index.php/site/index.php/gii

 

i am running on apache  

 

i get ERROR 404 

The system is unable to find the requested action "index.php".

[ewbarnard]

It looks like you have index.php in your url twice. You probably need localhost / yii / index.php / gii

Hope that helps!

 

i am failing to access the Gii from this url : http://localhost/yii/index.php/site/index.php/gii

 

i am running on apache  

 

i get ERROR 404 

The system is unable to find the requested action "index.php".