CHtml:Link in CListView

Question

I am new to Yii. In one of my page I am using the below code to list company names as link.

<?php 
  $ads = Ads::model()->findAll();
  foreach ($ads as $ad)
  {
  ?>
    <li>
  <?php
    echo CHtml::link($ad->company,array('/user/ads/view/id/'.$ad->id.'/')).'<br>';                                                                                                                                          ?>
    </li>
 <?php
  }
 ?>

I want to change it to CListView.
please somebody help me..

Answer 1

CListView expects an ActiveDataProvider, so you should change your code to something like this:

<?php 
    $ads = new Ads; // and then use the search() method to return an activedataprovider
    $this->widget('zii.widgets.CListView', array(
        'dataProvider' => $ads->search(),
        'itemView' => '_myview',
        'id' => 'blogslistview',       
)); 
?>

This wil render the _myview.php for each record. In the _myview.php file you can access the records attributes with $data->myattribute

So your _myview.php could look something like this:

<li>
<?php
echo CHtml::link($data->company, array('/user/ads/view/id/' . $data->id . '/'));
?>
</li>

More info:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CListView http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CActiveDataProvider