DynamicTabularForm

Allows us to Create dynamic tabular forms and also being able to use partial views for each 'row'

Example

This is an example of the controller with actionCreate this extension also uses a Custom action to load the each row of the tabular inputs via ajax it also uses proccessOutput by default

Controller: SlaController.php

public function actions() {
    return array(
        'getRowForm' => array(
            'class' => 'ext.dynamictabularform.actions.GetRowForm',
            'view' => '_rowForm',
            'modelClass' => 'SlaDetail'
        ),
    );
}

/**
 * without relation extension
 */
public function actionCreate() {
    /**
     * a typical setup... SLA is my header and its details is the SlaDetail model
     * this i like a regular receipt
     */
    $sla = new Sla();
    $sladetails = array(new SlaDetail);

    if (isset($_POST['Sla'])) {
        $sla->attributes = $_POST['Sla'];

        /**
         * creating an array of contact objects
         */
        if (isset($_POST['SlaDetail'])) {
            $sladetails = array();
            foreach ($_POST['SlaDetail'] as $key => $value) {
                /*
                 * Contact needs a scenario wherein the fk customer_id
                 * is not required because the ID can only be
                 * linked after the customer has been saved
                 */
                $sladetail = new SlaDetail('batchSave');
                $sladetail->attributes = $value;
                $sladetails[] = $sladetail;
            }
        }
        /**
         * validating the customer and array of contacts
         */
        $valid = $sla->validate();
        foreach ($sladetails as $sladetail) {
            $valid = $sladetail->validate() & $valid;
        }

        if ($valid) {
            $transaction = $sla->getDbConnection()->beginTransaction();
            try {
                $sla->save();
                $sla->refresh();

                foreach ($sladetails as $sladetail) {
                    $sladetail->sla_id = $sla->id;
                    $sladetail->save();
                }
                $transaction->commit();
            } catch (Exception $e) {
                $transaction->rollback();
            }



            $this->redirect(array('/crm/sla/view', 'id' => $sla->id));
        }
    }
    $this->render('create', array(
        'sla' => $sla,
        'sladetails' => $sladetails
    ));
}