CakePHP 1.3 alternative to SoftDeletable Behavior?

Question

Does anyone know of an alternative to the SoftDeletable Behavior that is compatible with Cake 1.3.x?

If there aren't any ready behaviors available, any suggestions on how I go about doing this in the latest Cake?

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Figured out a quick hack. First and foremost, if your table introduce a tinyint(1) unsigned field named deleted which defaults to 0.

In app/app_model.php, add in the following function:

function softDelete( $id ) {
    if( $id && $this->hasField( 'deleted' ) ) {
        $this->id = $id;
        return $this->saveField( 'deleted', 1 );
    }

    return false;
}

and then from your controller's method (that performs the delete) call,

$this->Model->softDelete( $id );

Catch is, wherever you perform a find(), you need to specify the condition deleted != 1.

Still trying to figure out how to implement this in the same manner as the SoftDeletable behavior.

Answer 1

i've adapted mariano's behavior to 1.3. look here - https://github.com/evilbloodydemon/cakephp-softdeletable2

Answer 2

Also worth noting: there is a SoftDelete behavior bundled in CakeDC's Utils plugin.