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Various behaviors for AR models

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

composer require andrewdanilov/yii2-behaviors "~1.0.0"

or add

"andrewdanilov/yii2-behaviors": "~1.0.0"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Usage

DateBehavior

At your controller class add to behaviors() method:

use yii\db\ActiveRecord;
use andrewdanilov\behaviors\DateBehavior;

class MyController extends ActiveRecord
{
	public function behaviors()
	{
		return [
			// ...
			[
				'class' => DateBehavior::class,
				// AR model attributes to process by behavior
				'dateAttributes' => [
					// DateTime format
					'date_1' => DateBehavior::DATETIME_FORMAT,
					// DateTime format with current datetime as default value if param is empty
					'date_2' => DateBehavior::DATETIME_FORMAT_AUTO,
					// Date format without time
					'date_3' => DateBehavior::DATE_FORMAT,
					// Date format without time with current datetime as default value if param is empty
					'date_4' => DateBehavior::DATE_FORMAT_AUTO,
					// Short notation equal to: 'date_5' => DateBehavior::DATE_FORMAT
					'date_5',
				],
			],
			// ...
		];
	}
}

DateBehavior converts date into mysql format before it will be saved to database (onBeforeSave event) and into display format after it is fetched from database (onAfterFind event).

You can define display format by modifiyng Yii::$app->formatter component in your config:

$config = [
	// ...
	'components' => [
		// ...
		'formatter' => [
			'defaultTimeZone' => 'Europe/Moscow',
			'dateFormat'     => 'php:d.m.Y',
			'datetimeFormat' => 'php:d.m.Y H:i:s',
			'timeFormat'     => 'php:H:i:s',
		],
	],
];

If you have problems with time shifting, set defaultTimeZone property of formatter.

TagBehavior

Use this behavior to link two models with many-to-many relation via staging table. This behavior will take care of saving new links to staging table and removing obsolete ones.

Model Product.php

<?php
namespace common\models;

/**
 * Class Product
 *
 * @property int $id
 * ...
 * @property int[] $category_ids
 */
class Product extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord
{
	public $category_ids;

	public function behaviors()
	{
		return [
			'category' => [ // name of behavior
				'class' => 'andrewdanilov\behaviors\TagBehavior',
				'referenceModelClass' => 'common\models\ProductCategory',
				'referenceModelAttribute' => 'product_id',
				'referenceModelTagAttribute' => 'category_id',
				'tagModelClass' => 'common\models\Category',
				'ownerModelIdsAttribute' => 'category_ids',
			]
		];
	}
	
	/**
     * Getter for retrieving child models (tags) list.
     * It can be used therefore as property $product->categories
     * or link named 'categories', i.e. $product->with('categories')
     * 
	 * @return \yii\db\ActiveQuery
	 */
	public function getCategories()
	{
		$behavior = $this->getBehavior('category'); // use name of behavior here ('category')
		if ($behavior instanceof \andrewdanilov\behaviors\TagBehavior) {
			return $behavior->getTags();
		}
		return null;
	}
	
	// ...
}

Model Category.php

<?php
namespace common\models;

use yii\db\ActiveRecord;

/**
 * Class Category
 *
 * @property int $id
 * @property string $name
 * ...
 */
class Category extends ActiveRecord
{
	// ...
}

Model ProductCategory.php

<?php
namespace common\models;

use yii\db\ActiveRecord;

/**
 * Class ProductCategory
 *
 * @property int $id
 * @property int $product_id
 * @property int $category_id
 */
class ProductCategory extends ActiveRecord
{
	// ...
}

View product/update.php

<?php

use andrewdanilov\behaviors\TagBehavior;
use common\models\Category;
use common\models\Product;
use yii\helpers\Html;
use yii\bootstrap\ActiveForm;

/* @var $this yii\web\View */
/* @var $form yii\widgets\ActiveForm */
/* @var $model Product|TagBehavior */
?>

<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(); ?>

...

<?= $form->field($model, 'category_ids')->checkboxList(Category::find()->select(['name', 'id'])->indexBy('id')->column(), ['prompt' => '']) ?>

...

<div class="form-group">
    <?= Html::submitButton('Save', ['class' => 'btn btn-success']) ?>
</div>

<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>

TagBehavior can be used several times in one model, so you can add at the same time categories, tags and linked products to your Product model

JsonTypecastBehavior

Use this behavior to convert database field values saved in json-string format into array and back. This allows you to store a value in the database as a json string, but treat it as if it were an array.

use andrewdanilov\behaviors\JsonTypecastBehavior;

class Item extends \yii\db\ActiveRecord
{
    public function behaviors()
    {
        return [
            'jsontypecast' => [
                'class' => JsonTypecastBehavior::class,
                'attributes' => [
                    'json_field_1', // field names
                    'json_field_2',
                    'json_field_3',
                    // ...
                ],
            ],
        ];
    }
    // ...
}

// Use example:
$item = new Item();
$item->json_field_1 = [1, 2, 3];
// before saving json_field_1 will be converted to a json string
$item->save();
// then after saving it will be converted back to an array
print_r($item->json_field_1);

// Outputs:
// Array
// (
//   [0] => 1
//   [1] => 2
//   [2] => 3
// )

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