The className property can be specified for other classes.
Documentation:
the ActiveRecord class name that should be used to look for the attribute value being validated. Defaults to null, meaning using the class of the object currently being validated. You may use path alias to reference a class name here.
Allows you to have the common_attr attribute in two models:
class Model1 extends CActiveRecord{
public function rules(){
array('common_attr', 'unique', 'className'=> 'Model1'),
array('common_attr', 'unique', 'className'=> 'Model2'),
}
}
class Model2 extends CActiveRecord{
public function rules(){
array('common_attr', 'unique', 'className'=> 'Model1'),
array('common_attr', 'unique', 'className'=> 'Model2'),
}
}
combined key CUniqueValidator..
: criteria property
public array $criteria;
additional query criteria. This will be combined with the condition that checks if the attribute value exists in the corresponding table column. This array will be used to instantiate a CDbCriteria object.
class Model1 extends CActiveRecord{
public function rules(){
array('common_attr', 'unique', 'caseSensitive'=>false,
'criteria'=>array(
'join'=>'LEFT JOIN model2 ON model2.common_attr=model1.common_attr',
'condition'=>'model2.common_attr=model1.common_attr',
)),
}
}