adding new objects to model's relations

Hello.

I came to a sort of a basic problem and I can’t find a solution the whole day now.

I have model A that HAS_MANY B and relation is ‘bs’. How can I add new object to the list without saving them in database?

The thing is user fills out the form and I create a model from it, but I can’t attach other objects to that model so I can save them later or do anything with them, using A->bs only works when reading from database.

A->bs[] = $b; - doesn’t work, PHP gives me an error that it has no effect

A->addRelatedRecord() - doesn’t also help, it can only add new relations, not change existing ones

How do you do it? If object B is contained within A, how do you connect the 2 without saving them in database first?

Thank you for your time.

I have written a AR extension that can do this, but it only works with MANY_MANY so far.

i still have to do some tests and enhancements, but i think i will release this enhancement collection as a behaviour in february. Handling HAS_ONE and HAS_MANY relations shouldn´t be a problem, since MANY_MANY is the most complex ;)

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php?/topic/6905-please-test-my-ar-enhancement-automatically-sync-many-many-table-when-calling-save/

I am suprised AR doesn’t have that already. I know I could save related unsaved (database) objects to some attribute in AR object and then later use it to actualy save them to database or whatever, but I can’t believe Yii doesn’t have this covered.

Oh well… I’ll do something like that and see what happens.

If anyone has an idea or own solution I would be happy to hear it.