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Yii2 By Example

You're reading from   Yii2 By Example Develop complete web applications from scratch through practical examples and tips for beginners and more advanced users

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785287411
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting with Yii2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating a Simple News Reader 3. Making Pretty URLs 4. Creating a Room through Forms 5. Developing a Reservation System 6. Using a Grid for Data and Relations 7. Working on the User Interface 8. Log in to the App 9. Frontend to Display Rooms to Everyone 10. Localize the App 11. Creating an API for Use in a Mobile App 12. Create a Console Application to Automate the Periodic Task 13. Final Refactoring Index

Multiple grids on one page


Every Yii2 widget has so much encapsulated in it that using multiple GridView widgets is a simple activity that involves making few changes.

The only parameters indeed that are not customizable with the DataProvider model class are pageParam and sortParam, which define the current page index and the parameters used to order a grid.

Suppose, for example, that we have two GridViews filled with two different data providers, $firstDataProvider and $secondDataProvider.

In the controller, we will set the pageParam and sortParam parameters of each DataProvider:

$firstDataProvider->pagination->pageParam = 'first-dp-page';
$firstDataProvider->sort->sortParam = 'first-dp-sort';

$secondDataProvider->pagination->pageParam = 'second-dp-page';
$secondDataProvider->sort->sortParam = 'second-dp-sort';

If we miss these definitions when changing a page or sorting a column, this action will also affect the other GridView in the same page because we have not distinguished...

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