I have the following tables/models: A, B, C, BC, D, BCD
(A:B 1:N) Connecting table D to BCD would be no problem. However I would like to filter key attributes as dropdown from A, B, C and D to find results in BCD (because in the end I need BCDid). In BCD next to BCid and Did I can store of course Aid, Bid and Cid, and it would seem to me quite an easy workaround, however I know it's totally against db normalisation. Is there another, better way (with eager loading of course)?
I've now this in BCD:
public function getB() {
return $this->hasOne(\app\models\B::className(), ['id' => 'Bid'])
->via('BC');
}
and it seems to work, but it's not eager loading.
And how do I get to model A? can I define it like this in BCD?:
public function getA() {
return $this->hasOne(\app\models\A::className(), ['id' => 'Aid'])
->via('BC')
->via(B);
}
It doesn't really work yet.
This way it works (BCSearch):
public function search($params) {
$query = BC::find()->joinWith('A', true)->joinWith('C', true);
Relation A in BC defined with "via". Dropdown filter also works.
But I still don't know how to achieve one more level deep into db structure.
This way it seems to work fully:
models/BCDSearch.php
public function search($params) {
$query = BCD::find()
->select([
'BCD.id',
'BCD.amount',
'A.id AS A_Id',
'A.name AS A_name',
'B.name AS B_name',
'B.name2 AS B_name2',
'C.name AS C_name',
'D.name AS D_name',
])
->leftJoin('BC', 'BC.id = BC_Id')
->leftJoin('B', 'B.id = B_Id')
->leftJoin('A', 'A.id = A_Id')
->leftJoin('C', 'C.id = C_Id')
->leftJoin('D', 'D.id = D_Id');
$query->andFilterWhere([
...
'A.id' => $this->A_Id,
'B.name' => $this->B_name,
'B.name2' => $this->B_name2,
'C.name' => $this->C_name,
'D.name' => $this->D_name,
]);
public function rules() {
return [
...
[[... 'A_Id', 'B_name', 'B_name2', 'C_name', 'D_name'], 'safe'],
];
}
models/base/BCD.php:
class BCD extends Whatever {
public $A_Id;
public $A_name;
public $B_name;
public $B_name2;
public $C_name;
public $D_name;
views/BCD/index.php:
GridView::widget([
'layout' => '{summary}{pager}{items}{pager}',
'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
'pager' => [
'class' => yii\widgets\LinkPager::className(),
'firstPageLabel' => Yii::t('app', 'First'),
'lastPageLabel' => Yii::t('app', 'Last')],
'filterModel' => $searchModel,
'columns' => [
[
'attribute' => 'A_Id',
'value' => 'A_name',
'filter' => yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::map(app\models\A::find()->all(), 'id', 'name')
],
[
'attribute' => 'B_name',
'value' => 'B_name',
'filter' => yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::map([['id' => 'name1', 'name' => 'name1'], ['id' => 'name2', 'name' => 'name2']], 'id', 'name')
],
[
'attribute' => 'B_name2',
'value' => 'B_name2',
'filter' => yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::map([['id' => 'name2_1', 'name' => 'name2_1'], ['id' => 'name2_2', 'name' => 'name2_2']], 'id', 'name')
],
[
'attribute' => 'C_name',
'value' => 'C_name',
'filter' => yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::map(app\models\C::find()->all(), 'C_name', 'C_name')
],
[
'attribute' => 'D_name',
'value' => 'D_name',
'filter' => yii\helpers\ArrayHelper::map(app\models\D::find()->all(), 'D_name', 'D_name')
],
'amount',
...
hope this helps others. It was not easy to figure out (at least for me) this basically easy solution. I don't know why but so far I couldn't find any relevant info on the web like this.