I am in a situation where I have more than 4 child tables associated with one Parent table. I need to create a user experience in which user presses Save button only once, meaning by, user enters all the data in parent model fields, then enters data in all four child model fields and then presses the save button. As far as I know, having relations in the model allows you to make associated rows inserted easily but the main problem is how to receive multiple rows from view in POST method for a single model (here I essentially mean the child models). I have tried it manually by repeating the attributes of child model in view but when I save the record, only the last rowset gets stored in the child table along with parent table, one row for the child table gets missed. Kindly note that I am using CActiveForm and other Bootstrap widgets in my View files.
Is it possible in Yii or I am too wishful....any suggestions or comments ????
Many thanks in advance. Regards, Faisal
You should be using tabular input, that way you can receive data for multipe instances of the same type, you can then save the parent and use its id to fill the child foreign keys.