How to get controller name inside CGridView? - php

Question

In views controller name can be achieved by $this->id, but in CGridView $this->id evaluation results in another name (may be gridview widget name). (1) How can I get controller name in cgridview?
Also I tried to define a variable ($thisCtl = $this->id) before calling CGridview. Although $thisCtl has the controller name, in CGridview evaluation process it is not defined. (2) Is there any way to pass a parameter to CGridView?
<?php
$thisCtl = $this->id;
$data = $model->search();
$this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbExtendedGridView', array(
'id'=>'insurance-grid',
'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
//'filter'=>$model,
'columns'=>array(
'id',
'registeration_date',
'modification_date',
array(
'htmlOptions' => array('nowrap'=>'nowrap'),
'class'=>'bootstrap.widgets.TbButtonColumn',
'viewButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("$thisCtl/view", array("id"=>$data["id"]))',
'updateButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("$this->id/update", array("id"=>$data["id"]))',
),
),
));
?>

Answer 1

Since it appears you wish to use the controller value within the column values, you can do the following to get the controller name:
$this->grid->controller->id
As you are within a TbButtonColumn, you can access the grid property (since TbButtonColumn extends from CButtonColumn which in turn extends from CGridColumn) to access the TbExtendsGridView (which ultimately extends from CGridView) where you in turn access the controller property of the grid (which is defined by the widget parent), and finally the get id of the controller.
Then, assuming all your other code is correct, you would specify your gridview like so:
<?php
$data = $model->search();
$this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbExtendedGridView', array(
'id'=>'insurance-grid',
'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
//'filter'=>$model,
'columns'=>array(
'id',
'registeration_date',
'modification_date',
array(
'htmlOptions' => array('nowrap'=>'nowrap'),
'class'=>'bootstrap.widgets.TbButtonColumn',
'viewButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl($this->grid->controller->id."/view", array("id"=>$data["id"]))',
'updateButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl($this->grid->controller->id."/update", array("id"=>$data["id"]))',
),
),
));
I haven't used any of the Tb extensions myself, by so long as they did not alter the built in behavior of the objects they extended, the above should work as desired.

Answer 2

the problem is that $this in CGridView refers to it's widget. So we should use a global function to get current controller name:
Yii::app()->getController()->getId();
the code should look like:
<?php
$thisCtl = $this->id;
$data = $model->search();
$this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbExtendedGridView', array(
'id'=>'insurance-grid',
'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
//'filter'=>$model,
'columns'=>array(
'id',
'registeration_date',
'modification_date',
array(
'htmlOptions' => array('nowrap'=>'nowrap'),
'class'=>'bootstrap.widgets.TbButtonColumn',
'viewButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("'.Yii::app()->getController()->getId().'/view", array("id"=>$data["id"]))',
'updateButtonUrl'=>'Yii::app()->createUrl("'.Yii::app()->getController()->getId().'/update", array("id"=>$data["id"]))',
),
),
));
?>
Thanks to this post Getting Current Controller ID in Yii