andmemasin/yii2-myabstract

my custom activerecord classes

9.0.1 2026-06-19 12:45 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.3.0
• andmemasin/yii2-helpers: ^1.5.0
• yiisoft/yii2: ^2.0.14

Requires (Dev)

• codeception/codeception: ^5.3
• codeception/module-asserts: ^3.0.0
• codeception/module-yii2: ^1.1.7
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.2

proprietary

• Tõnis Ormisson

• yii2
• andmemasin

README

Soft delete schema

This major version uses Laravel-style soft-delete timestamp semantics by default.

Default lifecycle columns:

• created_at
• updated_at
• deleted_at

Default audit columns:

• created_by
• updated_by
• deleted_by

Active records have deleted_at IS NULL. Deleted records have deleted_at set to the deletion timestamp.

This package keeps timestamp values as DATETIME(6) / Y-m-d H:i:s.u values. Laravel's migration helpers commonly create SQL TIMESTAMP columns for created_at, updated_at, and deleted_at, but that is not a UNIX integer timestamp. Both DATETIME(6) and TIMESTAMP(6) are read by Laravel/Eloquent as date objects.

The practical difference is timezone handling: MySQL DATETIME stores the exact calendar value written, while MySQL TIMESTAMP can be converted according to the DB session timezone. Keeping DATETIME(6) avoids timezone surprises during the Yii-to-Laravel transition. A future schema cleanup may convert these columns to TIMESTAMP(6) if strict Laravel migration-helper compatibility becomes more important than preserving current DB behavior.

Apps that still use the previous columns must override the column-name properties on their models until their own migrations are complete:

public string $userCreatedCol = 'user_created';
public string $userUpdatedCol = 'user_updated';
public string $userClosedCol = 'user_closed';
public string $timeCreatedCol = 'time_created';
public string $timeUpdatedCol = 'time_updated';
public string $timeClosedCol = 'time_closed';

Overrides only change column names. They do not preserve the old end-of-time active-row convention; active rows must still have the configured deleted timestamp column set to NULL.

Migrating an app module to 9.x

Migrate one app module or table group at a time.

1. Update the module package constraint to allow andmemasin/yii2-myabstract:^9.
2. Add a DB migration that renames the columns:

$this->renameColumn('{{table_name}}', 'time_created', 'created_at');
$this->renameColumn('{{table_name}}', 'time_updated', 'updated_at');
$this->renameColumn('{{table_name}}', 'time_closed', 'deleted_at');
$this->renameColumn('{{table_name}}', 'user_created', 'created_by');
$this->renameColumn('{{table_name}}', 'user_updated', 'updated_by');
$this->renameColumn('{{table_name}}', 'user_closed', 'deleted_by');

1. Convert active rows to the new Laravel-style soft-delete state:

$this->alterColumn('{{table_name}}', 'deleted_at', $this->dateTime(6)->null());
$this->alterColumn('{{table_name}}', 'deleted_by', $this->integer()->null());
$this->update('{{table_name}}', ['deleted_at' => null, 'deleted_by' => null], ['deleted_by' => [0, null]]);

Use dateTime(6) for this migration phase unless the module explicitly decides to also take on timezone semantics changes. Do not convert to UNIX integer timestamps.

1. Replace indexes that include user_closed with equivalent indexes using deleted_at.
2. Remove old column-name overrides from migrated models.
3. Keep explicit old-name overrides only on models whose tables are not migrated yet.
4. Search the module for direct references to old names and update queries/search models/tests:

rg -n "time_created|time_updated|time_closed|user_created|user_updated|user_closed" modules/andmemasin/<module>

1. Run the module tests and PHPStan before release:

vendor/bin/codecept run modules/andmemasin/<module>/tests
php vendor/bin/phpstan analyze -c modules/andmemasin/<module>/phpstan-dev.neon

Do not dual-write old and new columns. If a module cannot migrate its tables yet, keep it on the old major version or add explicit old-name overrides until that module gets its own migration.