Fatal error in a Yii controller using Giix - php

Question

So I've inherited a Yii application, I'm trying to get a piece this application to work that does a basic CRUD for management of Scientific factsheets. We're using Yii with Giix
This is the error:
"PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16 bytes) in /var/www/idtools.org/www/yii/framework/db/ar/CActiveRecord.php on line 58"
The update action is giving us the problems. The update looks like this in the controller:
public function actionUpdate($id) {
$model = $this->loadModel($id, 'Factsheet');
if (isset($_POST['Factsheet'])) {
$model->setAttributes($_POST['Factsheet']);
if ($model->save()) {
$this->redirect(array('view', 'id' => $model->factsheetid));
}
}
$this->render('update', array(
'model' => $model,
));
}
The view looks like:
$this->breadcrumbs = array(
$model->label(2) => array('index'),
GxHtml::valueEx($model) => array('view', 'id' => GxActiveRecord::extractPkValue($model, true)),
Yii::t('app', 'Update'),
);
$this->menu = array(
array('label' => Yii::t('app', 'List') . ' ' . $model->label(2), 'url'=>array('index')),
array('label' => Yii::t('app', 'Create') . ' ' . $model->label(), 'url'=>array('create')),
array('label' => Yii::t('app', 'View') . ' ' . $model->label(), 'url'=>array('view', 'id' => GxActiveRecord::extractPkValue($model, true))),
array('label' => Yii::t('app', 'Manage') . ' ' . $model->label(2), 'url'=>array('admin')),
);
?>
<h1><?php echo Yii::t('app', 'Update') . ' ' . GxHtml::encode($model->label()) . ' ' . GxHtml::encode(GxHtml::valueEx($model)); ?></h1>
<?php
$this->renderPartial('_form', array(
'model' => $model));
?>
The model (as generated by Giix) looks like:
Yii::import('application.models._base.BaseFactsheet');
class Factsheet extends BaseFactsheet
{
public static function model($className=__CLASS__) {
return parent::model($className);
}
}
the model extends the base:
abstract class BaseFactsheet extends GxActiveRecord {
public static function model($className=__CLASS__) {
return parent::model($className);
}
public function tableName() {
return 'factsheet';
}
public static function label($n = 1) {
return Yii::t('app', 'Factsheet|Factsheets', $n);
}
public static function representingColumn() {
return 'name';
}
public function rules() {
return array(
array('name, toolid', 'required'),
array('weight', 'numerical', 'integerOnly'=>true),
array('name, toolid', 'length', 'max'=>255),
array('inputdate', 'safe'),
array('weight, inputdate', 'default', 'setOnEmpty' => true, 'value' => null),
array('factsheetid, name, toolid, weight, inputdate', 'safe', 'on'=>'search'),
);
}
public function relations() {
return array(
'tool' => array(self::BELONGS_TO, 'Tool', 'toolid'),
'factsheetcontents' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Factsheetcontent', 'factsheetid'),
'factsheetimages' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Factsheetimages', 'factsheetid'),
);
}
public function pivotModels() {
return array(
);
}
public function attributeLabels() {
return array(
'factsheetid' => Yii::t('app', 'Factsheetid'),
'name' => Yii::t('app', 'Name'),
'toolid' => null,
'weight' => Yii::t('app', 'Weight'),
'inputdate' => Yii::t('app', 'Inputdate'),
'tool' => null,
'factsheetcontents' => null,
'factsheetimages' => null,
);
}
public function search() {
$criteria = new CDbCriteria;
$criteria->compare('factsheetid', $this->factsheetid);
$criteria->compare('name', $this->name, true);
$criteria->compare('toolid', $this->toolid);
$criteria->compare('weight', $this->weight);
$criteria->compare('inputdate', $this->inputdate, true);
return new CActiveDataProvider($this, array(
'criteria' => $criteria,
));
}
}
Any idea how to fix my issue? I've given PHP all of my systems memory (memory_init(-1)) and just gotten heap dump errors. I need help, please tell me where to look as I am totally new to Yii.

Answer 1

You generally get that error as part of your _form partial file. I've often run into it when GxHtml is generating a dropdown menu.
GiiX isn't that efficient at properly pulling all the models out of the database and grabbing the appropriate key / name for your drop-downs. So it's often better to specify the fields you want to retrieve manually.
If you post your _form code (or at least the relevant portions), we can point out the line.