Attribute name must contain word characters only

Question

I'm creating a profile form using gii and after doing the gii part and when I open the page for creating the form and I click on the "Creating Profile" it shows up with this error:

Invalid Parameter – yii\base\InvalidParamException
Attribute name must contain word characters only.

and this is the photo of the associated table in the db. phpmyadmin table view

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '16 at 20:55

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In your table You have

 father-s_name

the - is not allowed in yii2 field naming convention

use

 father_s_name  or fathers_name

answered Apr 05 '16 at 20:55

ScaisEdge

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 30 '17 at 13:34

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for example your column name is İmage_name capital letter(İ) you may take such error. You must change with lowercase letter(i), for example: image_name

answered Apr 30 '17 at 13:34

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Attribute name must contain word characters only

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