Yii Framework Automate setting the “owned by user” attribute to the currently logged in user

This is just a very simple snippets to automate set “owned by user” attribute to the currently logged in user id upon creation of a record using Yii Framework.

Assuming a dataset is “owned” by a user, we need to set the id of the current logged in user when saving the dataset automatically. We will use beforeSave() to set this attribute. This method is invoked before saving a record (after validation, if any).

public function beforeSave()
{
    $this->user_id = Yii::app()->user->id;
    return parent::beforeSave();
}

Alfa Adhitya Member since December 18, 2019

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