How to log changes of ActiveRecords?

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Revision #5 was created by pfth on Feb 13, 2009, 12:41:27 PM.

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crud ActiveRecordLog

To be able to log the changes we will use a behavior class. So you have to create one (i.e. ActiveRecordLogableBehavior) and store it somewhere in your application directory (i.e. \protected\behaviors). The behavior class should extend [CActiveRecordBehavior] as we want to work with ActiveRecords here.

```php
class ActiveRecordLogableBehavior extends CActiveRecordBehavior
{
private $_oldattributes = array();

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$this->_oldattributes=$value;
}
}

```

The behavior class uses the ActiveRecordLog Model to store the log lines into the database. It will log a line each time a record is inserted or deleted. It will also log a line for each field which is changed.

In order to make an ActiveRecord Model use this behavior, you have to add the following code to the Model class:

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