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ed-smartass/yii2-relation-behavior
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Behavior for gettting and saving ActiveRecord relations

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yii2-relation-behavior
======================

[](#yii2-relation-behavior)

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require ed-smartass/yii2-relation-behavior

```

### Example

[](#example)

```
use Smartass\Yii2RelationBehavior\RelationBehavior;

// ...

/**
 * @inheritdoc
 */
public function behaviors()
{
    return [
        // ...
        'relation' => [
            'class' => RelationBehavior::class,
            'relations' => [
                // Many to one relation
                'manufacturer' => [
                    'target' => Manufacturer::class,
                    'link' => ['manufacturer_id' => 'manufacturer_id']
                ],
                // One to many relation
                'modelCategories' => [
                    'target' => ModelCategories::class,
                    'link' => ['model_id' => 'model_id'],
                    'multiple' => true
                ],
                // Many to many relation
                'categories' => [
                    'target' => Category::class,
                    'link' => ['category_id' => 'category_id'],
                    'multiple' => true,
                    'via' => 'modelCategories'
                ]
            ]
        ]
        // ...
    ];
}

// ...
```

### Relation settings

[](#relation-settings)

- **target** — target class

    - Type: `string`
    - Required: `true`
- **link** — link condition (same as native yii2 declaration)

    - Type: `array`
    - Required: `true`
- **multiple** — is multiple relation or not (if `true` relation will be like `$this->hasMany(...)` overwise `$this->hasOne(...)`)

    - Type: `bool`
    - Required: `false`
    - Default: `false`
- **onCondition** — linking condition (will expand to `$this->hasMany(...)->onCondition(['status' => Category::STATUS_ACTIVE])`)

    - Type: `array|null`
    - Required: `false`
    - Default: `null`
- **filter** — extra linking filter

    - Type: `array|string|Closure|null`
    - Required: `false`
    - Default: `null`
- **via** — name of junction relation (will expand to `$this->hasMany(...)->via(...)`)

    - Type: `string|null`
    - Required: `false`
    - Default: `false`
- **extraColumns** — extra column for linking many to many relations

    - Type: `array|null`
    - Required: `false`
    - Default: `[]`
- **find** - Callback for searching related record from array (if you set relation value `$model->manufacturer = ['manufacturer_id' => 12]`)

    - Type: `Closure|null`
    - Required: `false`
    - Default: `Closure` (Searching by all pk keys)

### How to use

[](#how-to-use)

This behavior will allow you to use related models like usuall without created extra methods like:

```
public function getCategories()
{
    return $this->hasMany(...);
}
```

Instead, you just need to declare this in the behavior like on example.\_\_ In addition, this behavior can create or save changes to the related model. To do this, behavior uses a transaction. So you can do this:

```
$model->categories = [
    ['category_id' => 1], // Will find (or create if not exists) category with category_id `1`
    ['category_id' => 2, 'name' => 'New name'], // Will find (or create) category with category_id `1` and change name
    ['name' => 'New category'] // Will create new category
];
$model->save();
```

**Each related model will be validated before saving. If it fails, the transaction will be canceled.**\_\_ **Don't foget add relations to model `rules` as `safe`**

```
/**
 * @inheritdoc
 */
public function rules()
{
    return [
        // ...
        ['categories', 'safe'],
        // ...
    ];
}
```

### Limitation

[](#limitation)

This behavior will successfully save only truly basic relations

- One to many
- Many to one
- Many to many

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity54

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~89 days

Total

4

Last Release

1449d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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