Creating our User CRUD

As we are building a user-based web application, we must have the means to add and manage users. We added a tbl_user table to our database model in Chapter 6. You may recall that we left it as an exercise for the reader to create the associated AR model class. If you are following along and did not create the needed user model class, you will need to do so now.

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As a brief reminder on using the Gii code creation tool to create the model class. Navigate to the Gii tool via http://localhost/trackstar/index.php?r=gii and choose the Model Generator link. Leave the table prefix as tbl. Fill in the Table Name field as tbl_user, which will auto-populate the Model Class name field as User.

Once the form is filled out, click the Preview button to get a link to a popup that will show you all of the code about to be generated. Then click the Generate button to actually create the new User.php model class file in the /protected/models/ directory

With the User AR class in place...