Class TopicsListView

CListView displays a list of data items in terms of a list.

Unlike CGridView which displays the data items in a table, CListView allows one to use a view template to render each data item. As a result, CListView could generate more flexible rendering result.

CListView supports both sorting and pagination of the data items. The sorting and pagination can be done in AJAX mode or normal page request. A benefit of using CListView is that when the user browser disables JavaScript, the sorting and pagination automatically degenerate to normal page requests and are still functioning as expected.

CListView should be used together with a IDataProvider data provider, preferably a CActiveDataProvider.

The minimal code needed to use CListView is as follows:

$dataProvider=new CActiveDataProvider('Post');

$this->widget('zii.widgets.CListView', array(
    'dataProvider'=>$dataProvider,
    'itemView'=>'_post',   // refers to the partial view named '_post'
    'sortableAttributes'=>array(
        'title',
        'create_time'=>'Post Time',
    ),
));

The above code first creates a data provider for the Post ActiveRecord class. It then uses CListView to display every data item as returned by the data provider. The display is done via the partial view named '_post'. This partial view will be rendered once for every data item. In the view, one can access the current data item via variable <span class="php-var">$data</span>. For more details, see CListView::$itemView.

In order to support sorting, one has to specify the CListView::$sortableAttributes property. By doing so, a list of hyperlinks that can sort the data will be displayed.