Support dateCreated and dateCreated attributes when saving through code

[pdaleramirez]

cms/src/elements/Entry.php

Line 1018 in fc9365c

$record->postDate = $this->postDate;

        $record->sectionId = $this->sectionId;
        $record->typeId = $this->typeId;
        $record->authorId = $this->authorId;
        $record->postDate = $this->postDate;
        $record->expiryDate = $this->expiryDate;
        $record->save(false);

We have an importing feature in our plugin that allows user to set dateCreated and dateUpdated on newly imported entries but the afterSave method on Entry class does not pass the dateCreated and dateUpdated values on the record class. This prevents it from saving the dateCreated and dateUpdated values that has been set.

[brandonkelly]

Those are meant to be more like audit attributes that our base ActiveRecord class sets automatically (and doesn’t even give the outside code a choice on their values), so this isn’t something we could change without making a pretty significant change to ActiveRecord behavior.

So if you really want to hard-set those values, you’d have to either create the element rows manually, or let the Elements service continue doing the initial work, and then go in and update their values after the fact. (Note that for both insert and update queries, the default behavior is to automatically set those values as well. But at least there you can pass false to the $includeAuditColumns argument.)

[pdaleramirez]

Alright no worries

[brandonkelly]

I ended up having a need for this, so have implemented it on the 3.2 branch.