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Check if a data already exists in the table.

Check if a data already exists in the table.

I want to add a function and my model to validate whether a data exists or not. I did est function

    public function beforeSave(){

         $valor = SpmContacto::findFirstByCONT_CEDULA($this->CONT_CEDULA);
         if (!$valor) {
            return TRUE;
            }else{
             echo "Couldn't find your data. What's up?";
             return FALSE;
         }
     }

But this function does not work. It left me a blank screen. Could you be because apart from a BeforeSave function, I already have a BeforeCreate function?



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Blank screen means you got exception. Check logs.



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But the function if this correct?



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edited May '16

I don't think so.

  • you should really check your logs, and possible thrown exceptions. Blank page comes with an HTTP status 500 I guess.
  • hitting RDBMS to check whenever data already exist before saving, is a bad approach / practise. If you need such type of constraint (i.e. you want to make sure that certain field in a table is UNIQUE), you just ADD UNIQUE INDEX on top of RDBMS, and you're done. In other words, this task should be handled at a RDBMS level, not ORM/Model/Application. Yeah, I'm old school with this, but...
  • if you really want to handle it via ORM / application level then you can use Phalcon's Uniqueness special “validation” event.

Additionally, what you basically want with beforeSave() event in Model is:

public function beforeSave()
    {
        if ($this->year < 0) {
            echo "Year cannot be smaller than zero!";
            return false;
        }

You see, only a portion of business logic is there - your model object is created at runtime, and thus is being checked before actual save (insert/update) will ever touch your RDBMS.



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Yes, I added it in the beforeSave event, but I have more things in this event, more functions and so wanted to use another event not the same



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So create eventmanager, you can add there as many methods you want etc etc.