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How to call Custom Behavior?

Hi, I am struggling to make a custom behavior and to call it from models.

My idea is to put time-formatting functions in a behavior so it can be called from other models.

But I have no idea about how to call a method of the behavior.

In the reference about "Blameable behavior"(https://blog.phalcon.io/post/47652831003/tutorial-creating-a-blameable-behavior-with-phalcon), for example, it says you are supposed to call behavior's method with Validation Events like beforeCreate. But I want to use Behavior when finding

I searched out the usage of Behavior, and found SoftDelete, and Timestampable Behavior, which are also used with Validation Events.

Is there a diffferent way to access Behavior? Or can i create a custom event to call from any lines you like?

I am wondering Behavior is only available with Valication Events in PhalconPHP, not like cakephp that provides a flexible usage of Behavior.

Hope you have an answer



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Hi, your behavior can be linked to any of existing model events via Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Behavior::notify() method. List of model events is here ->https://phalcon-documentacion-en-espanol.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/models.html#events-and-events-manager .

About find, i am not sure there is event defined which you are looking for, perhaps you could override find method andset events yourself, something like beforeFind and afterFind, altho i havent tryed this approach myself.



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Thanks a lot, digitronac.

Things are getting clear for me with your comment.

so our current conclusion is , behavior is mainly used for events on the list of https://phalcon-documentacion-en-espanol.readthedocs.org/en/latest/reference/models.html#events-and-events-manager, and if you want to use behavior in other situations in a model, you need additional implementation.



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There is an afterFetch event you could tie in to. You could put your time formatting code in the subsequent afterFetch() method.



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hi, quasipickle

That's the answer i was searching.

Thank you so much.



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I finally decided to use trait as a behavior, which give me so much of flexibility as cakephp or Concern of RoR

(trait function is only availalbe over php 5.4)