Question

I am trying to test a Model and i need to insert into the ‘created’ field the current time-stamp.

I am using a Fixture for it but using ‘NOW()’ doesn’t seem to work. It writes 0000-00-00 00:00:00.

This is my fixture record:

public $records = array(
        array(
            'id' => 1,
            'body' => 'esto es una prueba',
            'idUser' => 2,
            'created' => 'NOW()',
            'ip' =>'1.1.1.1',
         )
)

Any idea about this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

As $recordsis a class property, you cannot use functions inside the definition.
If you want to use functions (like in your case date()or similar) you’ve to do it inside the init function like this:

public function init() {
  $this->records = array(
    // ...
    'created' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
    // ...
  );

  // dont forget to call parent::init() if you're overwriting init().
  parent::init();
}