Question

For example (it is a bad example for the purpose of my question), i want to store the user fullname by concatenating the firstname and lastname.
I have a table user with firstname, lastname, fullname

Is there a way to create a field in the schema with a trigger function that stores in fullname firstname+lastname ? The same way the created_at works (with timestampable)

I use doctrine and symfony 1.4

Answer 1

You definately don’t need to create a behaviour for something as simple and as unreusable as this.

Just override your model save method:

class Model extends BaseModel
{
  public function save(Doctrine_Connection $conn)
  {
    $this->fullname = sprintf ('%s %s', $this->firstname, $this->lastname);
    return parent::save($conn);
  }
}