[nsbucky]

had to create this for a project I'm working on, its useful for me, don't know if someone else would find it useful. but hey beats rewriting the same stuff in the models over and over.

/**
* CSerializeBehavior allows a model to specify some attributes to be
* arrays and serialized upon save and unserialized after a Find() function
* is called on the model.
*
*<pre>
* public function behaviors()
* {
* return array(
* 'CSerializeBehavior' => array(
* 'class' => 'application.extensions.CSerializeBehavior',
* 'serialAttributes' => array('validator_options'),
* )
* );
* }
* </pre>
*
*/


then $model = new Model;
$model->example_attribute = array('fun');
$model->save();

// internally now example_attribute is saved into db as a serialized array
a:1:{i:0;s:3:"fun";}

then $model = Model::model()->find(1);
print_r($model->example_attribute);
Array
(
[0] => fun
)

[Mike]

Very nice: first post and already giving. Thanks for sharing!

Some notes:

• You can upload your extension to the extension repository. But you might need some posts here in the forum first
• Please avoid the "C" prefix for your classes. This letter is reserved for framework classes.
• You can highlight code examples in this forum. Just select the text and click the <> icon in the editor or enclose it in [ code] ... [ /code] (without spaces in brackets)

Have fun!