Question

Help/support application built with Zend Framework 1 and Doctrine 1.2.4.

Problem: when creating new support ticket without assigning staff_id (support personnel) at first, Doctrine inserts empty row in staff table, because staff_id is NULL, and no matching id with NULL value could be found in staff table.

New ticket is created, note NULL value for staff_id

INSERT INTO tickets (closable, emergency, survey_sent, brands_id, departments_id, categories_id, status_id, staff_id, subject, contacts_id, mask, initial_categories_id, last_opened, last_activity, created_at, updated_at) VALUES ('0', '1', '0', '1', '4', '6', '1', NULL, 'Cancellation Request', '5463', 'MQXB-39568', '6', '2012-06-14 03:15:49', '2012-06-14 03:15:49', '2012-06-14 03:15:49', '2012-06-14 03:15:49')

New row in staff table with some default values, this is the problem.

INSERT INTO staff (enable_dst, last_page, external_links, replies_per_page, active) VALUES ('1', '0', '0', '10', '1')

wild query appears

DELETE FROM staff_index WHERE (id = '197')

and now ticket_posts (post = staff note) table is updated with newly inserted ticket ID, and newly inserted blank row in staff table (staff_id should be NULL here)

UPDATE ticket_posts SET tickets_id = '12455', staff_id = '197', updated_at = '2012-06-14 03:15:49' WHERE id = '48113'

I’ve “solved” empty rows by setting second column (username) to not null, but not a real solution.

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Is there a way to tell Doctrine, nothing to do here, move on?

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( ^ bottom line )

Answer 1

http://doctrine.readthedocs.org/en/latest/en/manual/working-with-models.html#clearing-related-records

public function preSave()
{
    if (empty($this->staff_id))
        $this->clearRelated('Staff');
}