1. Requirements
2. Usage
3. Resources

This extension allows you to treat model attributes as arrays, and they are automatically serialized for insertion and unserialized upon select, as long as you use the active record find methods.

Requirements ¶

Yii 1.1 or above

Usage ¶

Just add the behavior to your behaviors list in your model (after placing the behavior in your app.behaviors folder)

In your model:

public function behaviors()
{
    return array(
          'CSerializeBehavior' => array(
               'class' => 'application.behaviors.CSerializeBehavior',
               'serialAttributes' => array('attribute_to_serialize'), // name of attribute(s)
           )
    );
}

And then you can use your attributes like this:

$m = new MyModel;
$m->attribute_to_serialize = array(...);
$m->save();

$m = MyModel::model()->findByPk(...);
$a = $m->attribute_to_serialize;
echo is_array($a); // should be true

Resources ¶