Yii Understanding model creation

Question

Im wondering if someone could give me some help.

I'm very new to the Yii framework and im taking over some code for a friend.

Would someone be kind enough to tell me what the following lines do.

$variable = new ModuleModel('search'); $another->columns = $variable->search()->data;

I've never seen something passed when creating a new model instance and im not sure what the 'data' call does.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Paritosh Mahale · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-27 13:18:26Z

$variable = new ModuleModel('search');

this line call a method search() from class ModuleModel. This is used with CGridView for searching and filtering you will find somwthing helpful here

$variable->search()->data

This is accesing property from object where $variable->search() will return object and data is property of an object it's same as an

$searchData = $variable->search(); $searchData->data;

finally this line

$another->columns = $variable->search()->data;

assign data property from $variable->search() to $another->columns

Thanks for your answer, so data is a Yii function? Is there a way to show only specific columns from this?
data is an property of an class. use print( $variable->getData() ) to print whatever data return. and share this data for more clear full understanding

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