How to automate timestamps in ActiveRecord models

Comparing #10 with #13

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There are many ways to automate the setting of timestamps in yii ActiveRecord models. T~~wo of them a~~hree are presented here: 1. Via rules() 2. Via beforeSave()
3. Via CTimestampBehavior (zii)

To start off we need to create a database table.

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These are simple and elegant solutions to this issue.

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- [Chinese version](http://www.itkuaixun.com/bbs/thread-197-1-1.html "Chinese versThe third possibility is to use CTimestampBehavior in your models. You can read about this in the API documentation:

[http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CTimestampBehavior](http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CTimestampBehavior "Yii API: CTimestampBehavionr")