How to make a similar search form in Yii2 on Bootstrap?

Question

Yii

How to make a search form similar to this one in Yii2?
The idea is to give the searcher the choice of which model to search for - the model of authors or the model of articles.

And, accordingly, how to pass the parameter of the selected model to the search () method?

Answer 1

Look here. bootsnipp.com/tags/search?page=2
Maybe you will find what you are looking for

Answer 2

There is also a layout with handles through html, and then do what you want with it!
www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-input-forms.html
And when accepting

actionSearch() {
  $form = new MyForm();
  $form->load($_POST); // or $form->load($_POST, '');  — в зависимости как параметры передавать будите
  if ($form->validate()) {
     ...
  }
}