jonatas-sas / yii2-m2m-behavior
A Yii2 behavior to easily manage many-to-many relations using ActiveRecord.
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Type:yii2-extension
Requires
- php: >=8.1 <8.5.0
- yiisoft/yii2: ~2.0.0
Requires (Dev)
- codeception/codeception: ^5.2
- codeception/module-yii2: ^1.1
- phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
- phpunit/phpunit: ^9.6
- squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3.7
README
A reusable and robust behavior for managing many-to-many (M2M) relationships in Yii2 ActiveRecord using virtual attributes.
🧩 Inspired by the archived
yii2tech/ar-linkmany
package by Paul Klimov, now extended with modern improvements, full test coverage, and long-term support.
📦 Installation
composer require jonatas-sas/yii2-m2m-behavior
📚 Documentation
🚀 Overview
Yii2 Many to Many Behavior helps you:
- Manage M2M relations using virtual attributes (e.g.
tagIds
). - Automatically sync relations on
insert
,update
, anddelete
. - Control deletion of junction table rows (
deleteOnUnlink
). - Add extra columns to junction records (e.g. timestamps or metadata).
- Integrate smoothly into ActiveForm, GridView, and DetailView.
🛠 Example Usage (PHP 8.1+)
use yii\db\ActiveRecord; use yii\db\ActiveQuery; use odara\yii\behaviors\LinkManyToManyBehavior; /** * @property int $id * @property string $name * * @property-read Tag[] $tags * @property int[] $tagIds */ class Item extends ActiveRecord { /** * @inheritdoc */ public function behaviors() { return [ 'tags' => [ 'class' => LinkManyToManyBehavior::class, 'relation' => 'tags', 'referenceAttribute' => 'tagIds', 'deleteOnUnlink' => true, 'extraColumns' => [ 'source' => 'admin', 'created_at' => static fn (): int => time(), ], ], ]; } /** * Returns the relation between Item and Tag models. * * @return ActiveQuery */ public function getTags(): ActiveQuery { return $this->hasMany(Tag::class, ['id' => 'tag_id']) ->viaTable('item_tag', ['item_id' => 'id']); } }
Example Form Field
echo $form->field($model, 'tagIds')->checkboxList( Tag::find() ->select(['name', 'id']) ->indexBy('id') ->column() );
🤝 Contributing
Found a bug or want to suggest an improvement?
- Read the Contributing Guide
- Follow PSR-12 and Yii2 coding practices
🛡 License
Yii2 Many to Many Behavior is released under the MIT License.
💙 Credits
Maintained by the Yii2 community.
Inspired by the Yii2Tech package and rebuilt with care for modern development.