I have some tables that have foreign key references:
User
-> Tech
-> TechSchedule
-> Location
-> Customer
It seems that I can use the following query once to get any related data to the user. Consider the following query:
// load the user model
$model = User::model()->findByPk( Yii::app()->user->id );
// print
echo "<pre>", print_r( $model->attributes ), "</pre>";
// print more about the user
echo "<pre>", print_r( $model->Tech->TechSchedule[0]->Location->Customer ), "</pre>";
Prints out
Array
(
[user_id] => 1
[username] => someusername
[password] => somepassword
[salt] => somesalt
)
Customer Object
(
[_new:CActiveRecord:private] =>
[_attributes:CActiveRecord:private] => Array
(
[customer_id] => 14
[more customer data...]
)
[_related:CActiveRecord:private] => Array
(
)
[_c:CActiveRecord:private] =>
[_pk:CActiveRecord:private] => 14
[_alias:CActiveRecord:private] => t
[_errors:CModel:private] => Array
(
)
[_validators:CModel:private] =>
[_scenario:CModel:private] => update
[_e:CComponent:private] =>
[_m:CComponent:private] =>
)`
Is this normal behavior? If so, what would the purpose be of going through the hassle of writing relational queries, such as
$model = User::model()->with('Tech.TechSchedule.Location.Customer')->findByPk( Yii::app()->user->id );