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Custom Number Formatting or Decimal Separators and i18n

Revision #8 has been created by c@cba on Aug 2, 2012, 2:30:25 PM with the memo:

Removed function 'setAttribute()' from class ActiveRecord. Caused problems in my tests. Has problem to do with magic setter methods?
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Custom Number Formatting or Decimal Separators and i18n

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decimal separator, number format, i18n, customize, floating point numbers, localization

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We usually assign the received user input (=POST variables) to the model before performing other operations (calculations, validaton, saving, etc.).<br>
Therefore we sugges to do the 'unformatting' during the assignment process. This way, after one of the following lines is executed:

```php
$product->attributes = $_POST['Product']; // or ...
$product->setAttribute('price', $_POST['Product']['price']); // or ...
 
$product->setAttributes(array('price'=>$_POST['Product']['price']));
```
`$product->price` will be a valid numerical value and available for further use.
[...]
###2. The 'unformatting' of a number
Extend the CActiveRecord class and override its functions `setAttribute()` and `setAttributes()` to add the 'unformatting' functionality. <br>
For this, create the new file `components/ActiveRecord.php` with the following content:
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}
}
 
  public function setAttribute($name,$value) {
 
    $column = $this->getTableSchema()->getColumn($name); // new
 
    if (stripos($column->dbType, 'decimal') !== false) // new
 
      $value = Yii::app()->format->unformatNumber($value); // new
 
    if(property_exists($this,$name))
 
      $this->$name=$value;
 
    else if(isset($this->getMetaData()->columns[$name]))
 
      $this->_attributes[$name]=$value;
 
    else
 
      return false;
 
    return true;
 
  }
 
}
```

Derive all models from this new ActiveRecord class. For example in the Product model `models/Product.php` edit the following line:

```php
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Written by: c@cba
Last updated by: c@cba
Created on: Aug 1, 2012
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