Chapter 6. Database, Active Record, and Model Tricks

In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

• Getting data from a database

• Defining and using multiple DB connections

• Using scopes to get models for different languages

• Processing model fields with AR event-like methods

• Applying markdown and HTML

• Highlighting code with Yii

• Automating timestamps

• Setting up an author automatically

• Implementing single table inheritance

• Using CDbCriteria