How to make it easier to work with relations in Yii?

Question

Yii

There are two tables linked by pk. I select the data from one table together with the data from the second on BELONGS_TO. In the second table, I need only one field, but I have to display the information like this: $model->%relationName%->%attributeName
% %?

Answer 1

In the main model, write a method:

public function get%attributeName%(){
   return $this->%relationName%->%attributeName%;
}

call:

$model->get%attributeName%(); // вариант 1
$model->%attributeName%; // вариант 2

you can also override the yii magic method __get

Answer 2

Maybe it makes sense to denormalize the table then? And so this is quite normal. Or write a getter. But you shouldn’t override magic methods - not only are getters better suited for this, but people after you on the project see this kind of shit code and get upset.