Installation

1. Either clone the repository or download the behavior and copy instantiable.php to app/models/behaviors/
2. Next either add the behavior to the app_model or to each model you would like to use it in. $ var $actAs = array('Instantiable');

Usage

To have a call to find return model objects instead just add 'Instantiable' => true to the parameters: $ $this->User->find('first', array('Instantiable' => true));

If you would like every call to find to return model objects just add the alwaysInstantiate value when you add the behavior like so: $ var $actAs = array('Instantiable' => array('alwaysInstantiate' => true)); Note: This will likely cause issues if you have baked your views since they will be looking for a data array instead of a model object.

Then given a user model who's normal data from this find: $ $this->User->find('first'); would look like this: $ array( $ 'User' => array( $ 'username', $ 'email' $ ), $ 'Post' => array( $ 'subject', $ 'body' $ ) $ ) the model object array would now look like this: $ UserObject => ( $ [i_username] => users_username, $ [i_email] => users_email, $ [i_Post] => PostObject => ( $ [i_subject] => post_subject, $ [i_body] => post_body $ ) $ ) Note: In order to avoid name collisions with attributes of the model all associated models and model column names are prepended with a lowercase 'i_'. Also if the user had more than one post returned the i_Post key would point to an array of PostObjects.

Now you can do the following: $ $user = $this->User->find('first', array('Instantiable' => true)); $ echo $user->i_username; $ echo $user->i_email;