yii2-model-selector

Yii2 widget to replace native html select in case of a long option lists.
Based on select2 jquery plugin.
Bounded to ActiveRecord models.
Supports server side search and paging.
Contains select2-bootstrap.less (t0m/select2-bootstrap-css) for using with custom twitter bootstrap library.
Bundled with two prebuilt stylesheets for standard bootstrap and AdminLTE theme.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require pavlm/yii2-model-selector:dev-master

or add

"pavlm/yii2-model-selector": "dev-master"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

Most simple case:

echo ModelSelector::widget([
    'name' => 'field',
    'query' => Film::find(),
    'itemId' => 'film_id',
    'itemLabel' => 'title',
]);