[paulbennett]

Hi all, I'm building an auction module but am having some problems saving rows to the database.

In this snippet $max_bid is a ReddotAuction_Maxbid object which extends Db_ActiveRecord, and I'm checking to see if the new bid was made by the current winning bidder - if it is row just needs to be updated with their new maximum bid.

$amount is the new bid amount, and $user is a Shop_Customer object.

...

// Is the new bid from the current high bidder?
elseif ($user->id == $max_bid->user_id)
{
	if ($amount > $max_bid->amount)
	{
		$max_bid->amount = $amount;
		$max_bid->save(); // FIXME doesn't save

		return ReddotAuction_Bid::STATE_RAISED;				
	}
	else
	{
		return ReddotAuction_Bid::STATE_NOT_ENOUGH;	
	}
}

...

The snippet works correctly and returns the expected state, however the row isn't saved to the database, am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

[Eric]

Hi Paul,

Hmm. Perhaps it's saved but the AR object does not get updated automatically? In which case you'll need to recreate it with: $max_bid = ReddotAuction_Maxbid::create()->find($max_bid->id).

You've confirmed in the DB it's not being saved? But it's being created fine? Can you show the creation of the $max_bid object? Can you try creating a basic one in a page to see if it works?

$max_bid = ReddotAuction_Maxbid::create();
$max_bid->amount = 5;
$max_bid->save()

Thanks

[paulbennett]

Hi Eric, it was my fault - turns out $max_bid wasn't actually a row object I fixed that and now save() works as expected!