Custom Yii2 TimestampBehavior

Question

I have behavior in my model

public function behaviors()
{
    return [
        [
            'class' => SluggableBehavior::className(),
            'attribute' => 'title',
            // 'slugAttribute' => 'slug',
        ],
        [
            'class' => TimestampBehavior::className(),
            'createdAtAttribute' => 'created_at',
            'updatedAtAttribute' => 'updated_at',
            'value' => time(),
        ],
    ]; 
}

Everything is working. But I need that only in one action does not work. It is necessary that in actionView did not change "update_at" attribute. My actionView:

$model = $this->findModel($id);
$model->views++;
$model->save();

How can I do this as correctly as possible?

Yupik · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-06T11:08:37.773

3

Use:

$model->save(false, ['views']);

First parameter determines if validation should run (for this example it's not necessary), second determines attributes which should be saved.

Yii2 ActiveRecord - save() or Yii2 ActiveRecord - updateCounters() (which is better)

edited Jun 06 '17 at 11:08

answered Jun 06 '17 at 08:39

Yupik

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In db "updated_at" does not change. But in view(render) still changing attribute "update_at". – Vitaxxxa Jun 06 '17 at 08:51
`$model->refresh()` after save – Yupik Jun 06 '17 at 08:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '17 at 09:40

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You may just update it with special method ActiveRecord::updateCounters().

$model = $this->findModel($id);
// Don't forget to check whether the model is null
if ($model !== null) {
    $model->updateCounters(['views' => 1]);
}

answered Jun 06 '17 at 09:40

SiZE

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Custom Yii2 TimestampBehavior

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