Daily I am impressed with the coding in Akelos. Kudos to the developers and maintainers!

Right now I'm looking into putting a 'afterSave' callback function on a model named 'part'. What I want to accomplish is each time a part is created or modified, another function called "qb_update_part($id)" is called (but only when the Ak save/update is successful). I see from the AkActiveRecord | Callbacks documentation that I can put

function afterSave()  {  qb_update_part($this->id);  }

Inside \app\models\part.php and the afterSave function will get called. My question is thus: How and where should I put my qb_update_part($id) function, and how can I call it? Currently I have it inside qb_controller.php. If it stays there, how do I call it from inside the part.php afterSave function mentioned above?

Am I doing it wrong? Perhaps qb_update_part() should be in qb_helper.php? (Or are helpers only for the presentation output?) If so, how would I call it?

Thanks for the help!

I could put the qb_update_part() function in this model, but it would have to rely on still other functions (like default qb database settings retrieval) that are currently in qb_controller.

The other option would be to move the 'other relied-upon functions' into somewhere like \app\model\qb.php, then refer to them from the qb_update_part function inside this \model\part.php. Hmm. I know one can include any model they want to in any controller, but what about model to model? I guess experimentation wins again. ;-) I'll be back with an update when it works.

As I don't know what QB is. Just wanted to mention that you can observe models via ... AkObserver.

If the after_save-routine doesnt belong to the model you can place it in an observer which observes the particular model.

you have to decide if this would be a elegant solution to your problem.

class MyObserver extends AkObserver
{
    function afterSave(&$record)
    {...}
}

instantiate the observer in the controller, probably in application_controller, probably in a before_filter.

class ApplicationController...
function instantiateMyObserver()
{
    new MyObserver('Part','Post',$Comment);  // <=Model-names as string or instances
    //or:
    $myObserver->observe($ModelInstance);       
    $myObserver->setObservedModels(ModelNames,...);
}