I like the principle, but how does it work in practice? A few questions:

- I haven't looked at the code, but my guess is that you are storing an array?
- You also mention that it stores related data. So does this mean that if a 
table can be updated from two places - one with a save and the other with a 
saveAll - that the array it stores in each case is different?
- How do you get the data back out and into the database - or is the purpose 
something other than rolling back?
- How do you parse the rows to get an understanding of what's happened?
- How do you find the revision you are looking for (say something changed about 
a week ago and you want to find out what happened and who did it?).
- If you apply this to lots of tables it's going to become huge, isn't it?

Jeremy Burns
Class Outfit

http://www.classoutfit.com

On 6 Dec 2011, at 06:5632, anagrithems wrote:

> Not sure if anyone else has been looking for this like me, but I
> created an easy to use simple versionable behavior for cakephp 1.3  it
> hooks into the beforeSave callback and grabs a copy of the data before
> it changes and stores it in a revsions table.  The great thing about
> this plugin is that you don't need to make a different shadow table
> for each model.  All models can be placed into the same table.
> 
> I've thrown together a quick article on it in the bakery
> http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/analogrithems/2011/12/06/simple_revisionable_behavior_with_cakephp_1_3
> 
> Code is available at https://github.com/analogrithems/revisionable
> 
> The install is super simple two steps
> 1) First you need to add the table to your project use the following
> to generate that
> cake schema create Revisionable.revision
> 
> 2) add the behavior to your model like so
> 
> var $actAs = array('Revisionable.Revisionable');
> 
> 
> I'd love feedback on this if anyone sees fit.
> 
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