Question

I have a problem in my model declaration, in Kohana 3.0.4 with the fields $_created_column and $_updated_column.
The problem is that :
– When I create and update objects from my controllers, the fields in the database corresponding to $_created_column and $_updated_column declaration are modified, according to the current create/modification date, just as it should be.

• When I create and update objects from the models (using DB::insert, DB::update) (this is the best practice -> handling data operations from models) the fields corresponding to the declaration are NOT updating.

The code for DB::update and DB::insert:

    public function add_productimage($zoom, $particular, $thumbnail, $presentation, $product, $order){   
    $insert_id = DB::insert('product_image', array('zoom','particular','thumbnail','presentation','product','order'))
        ->values(array($zoom, $particular, $thumbnail,$presentation, $product, $order))
        ->execute();
    return $insert_id;
}

Any idea why?

Answer 1

You are not using ORM for inserts and updates, thus these specific settings are not applied. You use DB Query Builder instead of ORM. Use ORM for inserts / updates and you will be then employing best practice in this case.

By the way: your version of Kohana (3.0.4) should be easily updated to 3.0.12 (the most up-to-date in 3.0.x line), and this will fix multiple bugs that existed in 3.0.4.