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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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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

Working with relationships


ActiveRecord provides us with skills to work with relationships between database tables. Yii2 employs two methods to establish the relationship between the current and other ActiveRecord classes: hasOne and hasMany, which return an ActiveQuery based on the multiplicity of the relationship.

The first method hasOne() returns at most one related record that matches the criteria set by this relationship, and hasMany() returns multiple related records that match the criteria set by this relationship.

Both methods require that the first parameter is the class name of the related ActiveRecord and that the second parameter is the pair of primary keys that are involved in the relationship: the first key is relative to a foreign ActiveRecord and the second key is related to the current ActiveRecord.

Usually, hasOne() and hasMany() are accessed from properties that identify which object (or objects) will be returned.

The method in this example is:

class Room extends ActiveRecord...
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