Hey Francois, Francois Zaninotto schrieb: > Hi Georg, > > You could do: > > $article->setUpdatedAt($time); > $article->setVersionCreatedBy($authorname); > $article->save(); > > That vould create a new version of the article with just a difference in > the revision author. > > Or did I miss your point ?
Actually, yes. I want to be able to restore an old version and see to which foreign objects this object had been linked in the previous version through the many-to-many relations. > > François > Best regards, Georg > 2008/2/12, Georg Sorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > > Hey everyone, > > I'm happily using the sfPropelVersionableBehaviorPlugin which just got a > lot better thanks to the recent improvements. However I've run into a > problem or limitation which I'm not sure how to handle. > > When using many-to-many relations (say Author-AuthorArticle-Article) the > middle table is usually not manipulated directly but only through the > outer tables (Author and Article). So when I add an author to an article > (ie. just modifying the middle table) I want to create a new version of > the Author object so I can see when it has been changed and which author > has been added or removed at what time. The corresponding Article > object(s) should be given a new version as well since it / they has also > been changed. > > Clearly the Versionable Plugin is not able to do this currently. What > would be the right approach to solve this problem? I've thought about > serializing the respective properties of the object like > "collAuthorArticles" and so on and then unserializing them again when an > old version is retrieved. This should work however requires a way to > figure out all the many-to-many relations of an object and will probably > waste lots of space for all the unchanged relations in each version. > Another way would probably be to use a global version or revision number > like Subversion does. I haven't given this too much thought since this > is a completely different approach. > > Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on this I'd love to hear them! > > Thanks, > Georg > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
