Trying to treat an AR instance always as new using an extension

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi All

I have a situation in which I always want an ActiveRecord instance to be treated as new. For example:




$obj = new User ;

$ob->name = 'Foo' ;

$obj->save() ;

$obj->name = 'Bar' ; 

$obj->save() ;

Together with a behavior which does the following:




public function afterValidate() {

  $obj->setIsNewRecord(TRUE);

}

the above actions will create 2 db records!

However, if I save without validation ( save(false) ) it doesn’t work anymore, because afterValidate is not called!

Any suggestions how this can be done within an extension/behavior using AR methods ?

cheers

NOTE that you cannot replace afterValidate with beforeSave and that you cannot use afterSave to set isNewRecord to TRUE!!

2

don’t know if it would be the same problem, but yesterday i was facing a “insert the record twice” problem like this and it was just that i removed the ajaxValidation from create action and let the enableAjaxValidation = true in the form…

hope this helps

:)

regards

3

Thanks for your reply, but it sounds like a different problem, I guess you got your data inserted twice, using new instances, like




$obj = new User ;

..... 

$obj->save() ;

...

$obj = new User ;

....

$obj->save()
4

You can overwrite CActiveRecord::save() method itself in the model, if your business logic really needs it.




class User extends CActiveRecord

{

  public function save($runValidation = true, $attributes = null)

  {

    	$this->setIsNewRecord(true);

    	return parent::save($runValidation, $attributes);

  }

}

EDIT: As topic title says you want to do it in a behavior, so the above is not a solution.