public function actionAddMenuItem() { $item = \Yii::$app->request->post('item'); $menuItem = new MenuItems(); $menuItem->attributes = $item; $menuItem->enabled = true; if ($menuItem->validate()) { if ($menuItem->save(false)) { return $menuItem; } else { throw new Exception("Database exception"); } } else { $ex = new ValidationException(); $ex->setData($menuItem->errors); throw $ex; } }