Question

I am trying to include form on product page using renderPartial but it gives error

Fatal error: Call to a member function getErrors() on a non-object in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/yii/framework/web/helpers/CHtml.php on line 1605

i am using below code…

in product page

// product detail goes here, use below form to make an inquiry about this product
<?php $this->renderPartial('inquiry'); ?>

and in inquiry page page

<?php $form=$this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(
    'id'=>'query-form',
    'enableClientValidation'=>true,
    'clientOptions'=>array(
        'validateOnSubmit'=>true,
    ),
)); ?>


    <?php echo $form->errorSummary($model); ?>

    <div class="row">
        <?php echo $form->labelEx($model,'name'); ?>
        <?php echo $form->textField($model,'name'); ?>
        <?php echo $form->error($model,'name'); ?>
    </div>

Answer 1

There is a variable called $model in your view, but in your controller’s renderPartial() call, you are not passing $model into your view. So the view is looking for a variable called $model, but it does not exist.

You need to generate a new model in your controller, then pass it into the view, as follows:

$model = new Product(); //use whatever class you created for the model in place of 'Product' here

$this->renderPartial('inquiry', array('model'=>$model));

The 'model'=>$model tells Yii to pass the variable $model into the view, and the 'model' represents the name you use to access that variable from within the view. So if you write something like:

$this->renderPartial('inquiry', array('product'=>$model));

Then in the view, you would access the variable by typing $product instead of $model.