For clarity - I got some of this a bit wrong - here's a better slice of code:
function beforeSave() {
$this->data['Campaign']['slug'] =
Inflector::slug($this->data['User']['first_name'] . ' ' .
$this->data['User']['last_name']);
}
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On 19 Apr 2011, at 12:42, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit wrote:
> If you only want to do this on a single model, you could forget the
> behaviour. Just do something like this in your Campaign model:
>
> function beforeSave() {
> $this->data['Campaign']['slug'] =
> Inflector::slug($data['User']['first_name'] . ' ' .
> $data['User']['last_name']);
> }
>
> That's obviously a very slim piece of (untested) code that isn't doing any
> checks and assumes that you have populated the $data['User'] array key, but
> it ought to work with a bit of tweaking.
>
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> On 19 Apr 2011, at 12:31, barricades wrote:
>
>> Hey Jeremy, thanks for the advice. I'm a little bit new to all this
>> though. I have looked through the code before I posted but I'm
>> buggered if I can figure out exactly whats happening in there. I don't
>> suppose you (or anyone else who feels like chipping in) could give a
>> little more detail
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 19, 12:19 pm, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> There is nothing magic about the sluggable behaviour; it just populates the
>>> slug field of the $this->data array on beforeSave() using Inflector. You
>>> could write your own version. I have made some amendments to it myself for
>>> a particular scenario - just step through the code and you'll see it's
>>> fairly intuitive.
>>>
>>> Jeremy Burns
>>> Class Outfit
>>>
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>>>
>>> On 19 Apr 2011, at 12:14, barricades wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have a Campaign model and I want to create a slug for each new
>>>> campaign. I can do this easily with sluggable behaviour which is
>>>> awesome but I'd like the slug to be created from the first_name and
>>>> last_name field in the users table.
>>>
>>>> How can I do this? I've seen it asked a couple of times online but
>>>> never answered. Surely it's possible!?!
>>>
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