Yii CGridView

• CGridView is one of Zii Components
• There is other than CGridView, CDetailView, CListView. Look here.
• CGridView use DataProvider which define in controller
• CGridView display data in tables.
• Supports paginating, sorting, searching.
• Also support view, update, delete method

Then just put code below at the view (currently index.php). Minimal code to use CGridView

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$this->widget(‘zii.widgets.grid.CGridView’, array(

‘dataProvider’=>$dataProvider,
));

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The code above will view all data from the selected table / model.

If we would like to view selected column only. We could do like this

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$this->widget(‘zii.widgets.grid.CGridView’, array(
‘dataProvider’=>$dataProvider,
‘columns’=>array(
‘id’,
‘username’,
//’password’,
’email’,
‘joined’,
),
));

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To allow view, update and delete action. We add the CButtonColumn like this.

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$this->widget(‘zii.widgets.grid.CGridView’, array(
‘dataProvider’=>$dataProvider,
‘columns’=>array(
‘id’,
‘username’,
//’password’,
’email’,
‘joined’,

array(
‘class’=>’CButtonColumn’,
),
),
));

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To customize just view button only, we do like this

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array(
‘class’=>’CButtonColumn’,
‘template’=> ‘{view}’,
),
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To go customize more detail, we need to use RBAC where we need to define ‘deleteAccess’ rules. We can customize like this

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array(
‘class’=>’CButtonColumn’,
‘template’=>'{update}{delete}’,
‘buttons’=>array(
‘update’=>array(
‘label’=>’Update details’,
‘url’=>’Yii::app()->createUrl("whatever/update", array("id"=>$data->id))’,
),
‘delete’ => array(
‘label’=>’Delete’,
‘url’=>’Yii::app()->createUrl("whatever/delete", array("id"=>$data->id)’,
‘visible’=>Yii::app()->user->checkAccess(‘deleteAccess’),
),
),
),
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