Thursday, September 30, 2010

Re: beforeCreate() and afterCreate(): better implementation than mine?

afterSave already contains "created/updated":
http://book.cakephp.org/view/684/afterSave
note the param passed

On 30 Sep., 16:35, psybear83 <psybea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> From Ruby On Rails I know the beforeCreate() and afterCreate() hooks
> of models. I didn't find them for CakePHP, so I implemented them
> myself:
>
>   function isNewRecord() {
>     return empty($this->id) || $this->field('created') == $this->field('modified');
>
>   }
>
>   function beforeSave() {
>     if($this->isNewRecord()) {
>       return $this->beforeCreate();
>     }
>   }
>
>   function afterSave() {
>     if($this->isNewRecord()) {
>       return $this->afterCreate();
>     }
>   }
>
>   function beforeCreate() {
>     return true;
>   }
>
>   function afterCreate() {
>     return true;
>   }
>
> Sadly, this implementation depends on created and modified fields, and
> the isNewRecord() method itself isn't very beautiful, too. So maybe
> there is a better implementation?
>
> Thanks
> Josh

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