Does anybody have any idea of how I can check whether or not a dataobject already exists? I'm just looking for an if statement that I can use before making my dataobject that I want to create.

Thanks

Thanks for the reply,

I'm actually creating a group on the fly each time I create a page. The group is named by the title of the page so what I would like to do is check that there is not already a group of the same name.

This is the if statement I am using but it doesn't seem to be working for me:

   if(DataObject::get_one('Group') != $this->Title)

I'm sure it's just a sytax problem but I can't seem to figure it out

Thanks willr,

I've tried your suggestion but it seems that this check still is not working, the security group is still being duplicated.

To give you a better idea I have posted the code from my page class here:

   static $has_written = false;

   function onBeforeWrite(){

   if(DataObject::get_one('Group', "Title != '$this->Title'")){
      if(!self::$has_written){
            $group = new Group();
            $group->Title = $this->Title;
            $group->write();
         }
      self::$has_written = true;
   }
   parent::onBeforeWrite();
   }

Ah you're the man!

Yes that's it, works like a dream. One more question though related to this, when creating a new page I'm getting a security group being created for 'New Page'. Is there anyway to avoid this happening? I'm not quite sure why this is happening in the first place.

Otherwise works like a charm now though

Thanks again