Yii Model CGridView including column with Yii-User Profile Field data

Question

I'm looking to enable search criteria in a model for a related module's model. Here's an example to explain what I mean:

• I have a 'Product' model which contains 'user_id'.
• In Yii-user I created a Custom Profile Field called 'brand'.
• I have a CGridView (with Search/Filter functionality) in my Product model's index view which lists all products.
• I want to add the 'brand' profile field (which is a custom Profile Field made with Yii-User) to the CGridView columns allowing people to filter and search the grid view by 'brand'.

I added the following code to my Product model relations:

public function relations()
{
            Yii::import('application.modules.user.models.*');
    Yii::app()->getModule('user');
    return array(
        'user' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'Users', 'user_id'),
    );
}

And then adding this to the Product model's search criteria:

$criteria->compare('user.brand', $this->user->profile->brand, true);

This however yields no positive results.

I'm not sure if I'm going the right direction here. Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Why you put the below lines in 'relations()' function?

Yii::import('application.modules.user.models.*');
Yii::app()->getModule('user');

You need put 'brand' how a public or private attribute on 'Product' model. This attribute is not persistent, only use for the get the filter form value.

Then use like this:

$criteria->compare('user.brand', $this->brand, false);

And is possible that you need put 'brand' attribute on the 'rules()', on the array() with 'on'=>'search'.