Yii Relation data issue with HasMany - php

Question

Currently we have two tables.
Locations and Addresses
Locations are a 1 to many relation to addresses on addresses.location_id.
We are trying to output all addresses related to a specific location in the cgridview:
admin.php
<?php $this->widget('zii.widgets.grid.CGridView', array(
'id'=>'locations-grid',
'dataProvider'=>$location->search(),
'filter'=>$location,
'columns'=>array(
'id',
'name',
array(
'name' => 'address',
'value' => 'implode("<br>",CHtml::listData($data->addresses(),"id","address"))',
'filter' => CHtml::activeTextField($location, 'address'),
'type' => 'html',
),/**/
array(
'class'=>'CButtonColumn',
),
),
)); ?>
model (locations.php)
public function search()
{
// Warning: Please modify the following code to remove attributes that
// should not be searched.
$criteria=new CDbCriteria;
$criteria->together = true;
$criteria->with = array('addresses');
$criteria->compare('id',$this->id);
$criteria->compare('name',$this->name,true);
$criteria->compare('addresses.address',$this->address,true);
return new CActiveDataProvider($this, array(
'criteria'=>$criteria,
));
}
Is there a better way of going about getting the address data rather then imploding the $data->addresses function?

Answer 1

You can add a getter method to your Locations model.
public function getAddressNames($separator='<br>')
{
$names = array();
foreach($this->adresses as $address) {
$names[] = $address->address;
}
return implode($separator, $names);
}
Then you can use addressNames like a regular attribute in your gridview.