Prepare data in controller, not in view (yii) - yii

Question

I made "gearbox"-dropDownList in my Yii webapp, all works perfect, it stores in DB with next values ( 1=> Manual, 2=> Manual-Automat(tiptronick), 3=> Automat), and now i display it in template (view.php) with such not beautiful if-block:
Gearbox:
"
if ($model->gearbox == 1) {
echo 'Manual';
} elseif($model->gearbox == 2) {
echo 'Manual-Automat';
} else {
echo 'Automat';
}
"
Tell me please, should I prepare such data in controller? And if it is possible, can you advice me, please, how it doing.

Answer 1

A other option would be to add this to your model with a virtual attribute, like this:
public function getGearboxName() {
if ($model->gearbox == 1) {
return 'Manual';
} elseif($model->gearbox == 2) {
return 'Manual-Automat';
} else {
return 'Automat';
}
}
This way you can access the value by the gearboxName attribute in your model:
echo $model->gearboxName;

Answer 2

I think in this simple case there is not much to do, but you could prepare it in your controller like this:
Controller:
if ($model->gearbox == 1) {
$gearbox = 'Manual';
} elseif($model->gearbox == 2) {
$gearbox = 'Manual-Automat';
} else {
$gearbox = 'Automat';
}
$this->render('view',array('gearbox'=>$gearbox))
View:
echo $gearbox;