Question

My User Model have 3 Status options (Active, Deleted, Blocked).
When seeing it in the view it shows as numbers 1, 2 or 3. What I can do to show it by the status name?

Model.php

const STATUS_ACTIVE = 1;
const STATUS_DELETED = 2;
const STATUS_BLOCKED = 3;

Controller.php

public function actionAdmin()
{
    $model=new Users('search');
    $model->unsetAttributes();  // clear any default values
    if(isset($_GET['Users']))
        $model->attributes=$_GET['Users'];

    $this->render('admin',array(
        'model'=>$model,
    ));
}

View.php

<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbGridView',array(
    'type'=>'striped bordered condensed',
    'id'=>'users-grid',
    'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
    'filter'=>$model,
    'columns'=>array(
        'name',
        'status', // Show 1,2 or 3. I want to get the status name.
    ),
)); ?>

Answer 1

Create a new method in your User model called getStatusName that returns the status name. Here is one possible way of doing it:

public function getStatusName()
{
    switch($this->status)
    {
        case self::STATUS_ACTIVE:
            return 'Active';
            break;

        case self::STATUS_DELETED:
            return 'Deleted';
            break;

        case self::STATUS_BLOCKED:
            return 'Blocked';
            break;

        default:
            return 'Unknown';
            break;
    }

}

Then in your CGridView, do this:

<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.TbGridView',array(
    'type'=>'striped bordered condensed',
    'id'=>'users-grid',
    'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
    'filter'=>$model,
    'columns'=>array(
        'name',
        'statusName' // And let Yii do its magic OR be explicit
        array('name' => 'status', 'type' => 'text', 'value' => '$data->statusName'),
    ),
)); ?>

Note: if you used the short version on the column configuration, you should add statusName to your attributeLabels array

//model.php
public function attributeLabels(){
  return array(
    //Other labels
    'statusName' => 'status',
  )
}

This way you can also use the same attribute in other places, and let it behave like a normal attribute (only that it is read-only).