Question

I have a Behavior attached to a Model that should behave differently depending on some property of the model. Example:

class Airplane extends AppModel {
    var $actsAs = array('Flying');
}

class FlyingBehavior extends ModelBehavior {
    function flightTime(&$Model, $distance) {
        return $distance / $this->speed;
    }
}

Initially I thought I setting it like

class Airplane extends AppModel {
    var $actsAs = array('Flying' => 
                      array('speed' => SOMENUM)
                  );
}

class FlyingBehavior extends ModelBehavior {
    function setup(&$Model, $settings) {
        $this->speed = $settings['speed'];
    }

    function flightTime(&$Model, $distance) {
        return $distance / $this->speed;
    }
}

But I don’t know how to make this work, because I’d need to fetch the speed column from each Airplane record. How should I do this?

Answer 1

I solved the problem by adding code to the afterFind() callback; setting a property in the Model.

I then just need to access it via$Model->property from the Behavior. This should be possible without having to meddle with afterFind() but unfortunately I didn’t find the way to do it.