Modifying a model attribute won't make it to the DB in CActiveRecord::beforeSave()

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I’m implementing HTML sanitization for form fields, on the beforeSave() method of a model. But it doesn’t work.

For example:


public function beforeSave()

{

  $this->anAttribute = 'somevalue';

  var_dump( $this->anAttribute );

}

somevalue is actually outputted, but it never gets to the DB, so in between beforeSave() and save() the value is lost and what’s saved is the original form field value.

2

You should call parent::beforeSave() which will return true as default.

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CActiveRecord#beforeSave-detail

/Tommy

3

beforeSave() must return a boolean value. False (or null in your case) stops saving process.




return parent::beforeSave();