BootGridView Filter not working in Yii Framework - yii

Question

I have tried to implement the sorting using BootGridView but it does not seem to work. Here is the line of code.
<?php $this->widget('bootstrap.widgets.BootGridView', array(
'id'=>'user-grid',
'dataProvider'=>$model->search(),
'filter'=>$model,
'columns'=>array(
'user_id',
array('name'=>'user_type',
'value'=>'User::getType($data->user_type)'),
'username',
array('header'=>'Name',
'type'=>'raw',
'value'=> 'CHtml::link($data->firstname." ".$data->lastname, array("view", "id"=>$data->id))'
),
array('name' => 'status',
'type' => 'raw',
'value' => '$data->status == 1 ? "Active" : CHtml::link("In Active", "javascript:void(0);", array("id" => "active_" . $data->id, "onClick"=>"js:activate($data->id)"))'
),
/*
'email',
'dob',
'profession',
'hobby',
'height',
'weight',
'weight_taken_on',
'login_attempt',
'registration_date',
*/
array(
'class'=>'bootstrap.widgets.BootButtonColumn',
),
),
)); ?>
The code does not seem to sort the table as expected. What could be the possible problem in this. ?

Answer 1

Sorting is configured in the data provider, not in the grid view. So you should look into the search() method of your model. You need something like this:
return new CActiveDataProvider('User',array(
// ...
'sort' => array(
'attributes' => array(
'name',
'email',
// ...
Have a look at CSort and especially the attributes property there to learn more about sort options you can use here.