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ID of an entry in the DB before write()?


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Gutur

Community Member, 17 Posts

22 February 2009 at 10:54am

Edited: 22/02/2009 10:54am

Aaand, me again :)

This time I want to store a reference to the entry that I'm going to write.
For testing I whipped up some code that tries to store the ID of the entry simply in an extra field, something like this:

function saveCalEntry($data, $form) {
$entry = new simpleCalEntry();
$form->saveInto($entry);
$IDofthisdata = $entry->ID; // How do I get the ID of this new entry?
$entry->recurring = $IDofthisdata;
$entry->write();
}

But unfortunately it seems that ID isn't set before write(). Any ideas on how I could go for it?

Thanks in advance /Carsten

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Gutur

Community Member, 17 Posts

22 February 2009 at 12:13pm

Answering myself again, got the hint from ajshort:
No, you can't easily get the ID of an entry before write() but you can get it immediately afterwards then fiddle what you want and call write() again.
Easy, huh? ;)
/Carsten