nsanden / SortableModel

[Yii] Helper for managing manually created order of models

SortableModel is a helper for managing manually created order of models to Yii web framework.

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Install

1. Copy/Clone dir in protected/extensions/SortableModel:

git clone https://github.com/wapmorgan/SortableModel.git protected/extensions/SortableModel

2. Open your model and add behavior in behaviors() method like this:

public function behaviors() {
		return array(
			'SortableModel' => array(
				'class' => 'ext.SortableModel.SortableModelBehavior'
				/* optional parameters */
				//'orderField' => 'order',
				//'condition' => 'user_id = :user_id',
				//'params' => array(':user_id' => 1)
			),
		);
	}

3. All newly created models will be at the end of list.

4. To move them, call moveUp() or moveDown().

5. If you delete a record, all the subsequent records are moved up one position.