Yii Creating a Create & Update MVC with unrelated tables - php

Question

So I have schemca very similiar to:
users
--------------
userid, name, password, email
userinroles
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pk, userid, roleid
roles
-----------
roleid, level, description
As you can see the roles table is related to the users via the userinroles table, this is so a user can have edit rights within various groups and have different levels of access for different things. For example they might need to be a page editor while having a super admin rights on a module.
The problem is when I'm updating or creating a record I don't know how to list the roles such that you can check a box to what role they should have and insert that into the userinroles table.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Model:
Yii::import('application.models._base.BaseUser');
class User extends BaseUser
{
public static function model($className=__CLASS__) {
return parent::model($className);
}
public function rules() {
return array(
array('username, password, email', 'required'),
array('isActive, isDeleted, isLocked', 'numerical', 'integerOnly'=>true),
array('username', 'length', 'max'=>50),
// Throws error if user name is not unique
array('username', 'unique', 'attributeName'=> 'username', 'caseSensitive' => 'false'),
array('password', 'length', 'max'=>255),
array('email, organization, position', 'length', 'max'=>100),
array('salt', 'length', 'max'=>32),
array('organization, position, salt, isActive, isDeleted, isLocked', 'default', 'setOnEmpty' => true, 'value' => null),
array('userid, username, password, email, organization, position, salt, isActive, isDeleted, isLocked', 'safe', 'on'=>'search'),
);
}
public function relations() {
return array(
'toolaccesses' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Toolaccess', 'userID'),
'usergalleries' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Usergallery', 'userid'),
'userinroles' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Userinroles', 'userid'),
'tools' =>array(self::MANY_MANY, 'Tool', 'toolid'),
);
}
}
Controller:
class UserController extends GxController {
public function actionView($id) {
$this->render('view', array(
'model' => $this->loadModel($id, 'User'),
));
}
public function actionCreate() {
$model = new User;
if (isset($_POST['User'])) {
$model->setAttributes($_POST['User']);
// salting the user's password before we insert
$model->password = md5(Yii::app()->params["salt"] . $model->password);
if ($model->save()) {
if (Yii::app()->getRequest()->getIsAjaxRequest())
Yii::app()->end();
else
$this->redirect(array('view', 'id' => $model->userid));
}
}
$this->render('create', array( 'model' => $model));
}
public function actionUpdate($id) {
$model = $this->loadModel($id, 'User');
if (isset($_POST['User'])) {
// testing if we need to salt the password.
if(strcmp($_POST['User']['password'], $model->password)!=0)
{ // passwords passed in are not the same. We need to now modify the post password
$_POST['User']['password'] = md5(Yii::app()->params["salt"] . $_POST['User']['password']);
}
$model->setAttributes($_POST['User']);
if ($model->save()) {
$this->redirect(array('view', 'id' => $model->userid));
}
}
$this->render('update', array(
'model' => $model,
));
}
public function actionDelete($id) {
// prevent the deletion of the super user, who has the ID 1.
// This is sort of like a Unix "root" user or a Window's Administrator
if($id == 1)
{
throw new CHttpException(400, Yii::t('app', 'You cannot delete the super admin.'));
}
else
{
if (Yii::app()->getRequest()->getIsPostRequest()) {
$this->loadModel($id, 'User')->delete();
if (!Yii::app()->getRequest()->getIsAjaxRequest())
$this->redirect(array('admin'));
} else
throw new CHttpException(400, Yii::t('app', 'Your request is invalid.'));
}
}
public function actionIndex() {
$dataProvider = new CActiveDataProvider('User');
$this->render('index', array(
'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
));
}
public function actionAdmin() {
$model = new User('search');
$model->unsetAttributes();
if (isset($_GET['User']))
$model->setAttributes($_GET['User']);
$this->render('admin', array(
'model' => $model,
));
}
}

Answer 1

First, I think you should use Many-Many relation between users and roles table -
public function relations() {
return array(
'toolaccesses' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Toolaccess', 'userID'),
'usergalleries' => array(self::HAS_MANY, 'Usergallery', 'userid'),
'roles' => array(self::MANY_MANY, 'Roles', 'userinroles(userid, roleid)'),
'tools' => array(self::MANY_MANY, 'Tool', 'toolid'),
);
After that, you will able to get roles for users with $user->roles. About some actions with roles, related to concrete user: i use this extension to save many-many relations. Sorry if i understood you wrong.