Question

Hey Friends I want to make a form builder using Yii.

For that I made the database table as:

[user]-> user_id
[form]-> id, user_id
[form_elements]-> form_id
[form_values]-> id, form_id
[table]-> id, form_id, form_elements_id, form_values_id, user_id

I made the model class for the database tables for making them accessible. So for making the form_builder do i need to make them CRUD or make them form generator through Gii tools?

Please help me as I am new to Yii.

Answer 1

If I grasp your schema correctly, you’re about to make a layer on top of CForm. Your application will presumably have two interfaces:

• one that is generating forms based on the data in your database, and accepting end-user inputs,
• and another that will manipulate the form fields.

For the first, you need to develop a special library to interpret your data into CForm configuration and store the input in a separate database (and by separate I mean a database that is not covered in your specs above).

For the second, yes, you will need a CRUD application (as a start at least) to deal with those objects in a convenient way.