Question

Ive been trying to think of / find a solution to an issue i have. Im creating a menu system for my Yii app but I need to store part of the items need for creating the URL in a table.
I have a table called system_menu_item:

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item_id | dis_text | action | variables |
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1 | edit article | document/view | array(‘id’=>$model->arl_id) |

What i was hoping for was:

$model = SystemMenuItem::model()->findByPk('1');
$url = yii::app()->createUrl($model->action, $model->variables);

This doesn’t work.. I tried different ways of doing it all not working. Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

I’m going to guess the issue is that $model->variables evaluates to a string with the value array('id'=>$mode->arl_id).

An ugly (and dangerous!) hack would be to read this in using eval()

A better way would be to probably figure out a different way to store your parameters, and read them into an array after performing your DB query.