Comments on: Duplicating a propel object

By: Michele

Michele — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:19:13 +0000

Great DAVID!
You saved me some hours of work.
Thanks.

By: ronald

ronald — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:52:37 +0000

I found some thing that works better, using propel’s built in functionality

$objCopy = null;
$objCopy = $objRow->copy();
$objCopy->setName(“foo”);
$objCopy->save();

By: Fernando

Fernando — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:29:11 +0000

Great Job, effort like this, makes symfony so useful …

thanks

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:45:19 +0000

Be careful with deepCopy when I used it I remember being surprised a couple of times.

I also recall that there seemed to be an issue with multiple field primary keys as well

My bug report here:
http://trac.symfony-project.org/ticket/4836

It’s unreviewed, which may be a nice way of saying I was doing something else wrong

By: Pablo

Pablo — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:16:50 +0000

@David

great, this is what I needed, I could not find it quickly.

thanks!

By: David

David — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:49:07 +0000

There is actually something ready to use in Propel: in your Model’s base class you can find the following:
[code]
/**
* Makes a copy of this object that will be inserted as a new row in table when saved.
* It creates a new object filling in the simple attributes, but skipping any primary
* keys that are defined for the table.
*
* If desired, this method can also make copies of all associated (fkey referrers)
* objects.
*
* @param boolean $deepCopy Whether to also copy all rows that refer (by fkey) to the current row.
* @return Contract Clone of current object.
* @throws PropelException
*/
public function copy($deepCopy = false)
{
// we use get_class(), because this might be a subclass
$clazz = get_class($this);
$copyObj = new $clazz();
$this->copyInto($copyObj, $deepCopy);
return $copyObj;
}
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