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sjaakp/yii2-novelty
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Property indicating novelty of Yii2 ActiveRecord.

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yii2-novelty
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[](#yii2-novelty)

Property indicating novelty of Yii2 ActiveRecord
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[](#property-indicating-novelty-of-yii2-activerecord)

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**yii2-novelty** is a [behavior](https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/concept-behaviors#behaviors "Yii2")that adds a property with the name `'novelty'` to an [ActiveRecord](https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/2.0/en/db-active-record#active-record "Yii2")in the [Yii2](https://www.yiiframework.com/ "Yii2") PHP framework. This property has one of the following three values:

- `'new'` in case the record is *created* since the user visited the site previously;
- `'updated'` in case the record is *updated* since the user visited the site previously;
- `null` in other cases.

The class **NoveltyBehavior** extends om Yii's [TimestampBehavior](https://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/2.0/yii-behaviors-timestampbehavior "Yii2"). The value of `novelty` is based on the attribute values of TimestampBehavior, usually called `'created_at'` and `'updated_at'`, and on the time the user visited the site previously. The previous visit time is stored in two cookies.

Installation
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[](#installation)

Install **yii2-novelty** in the usual way with [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/). Add the following to the require section of your `composer.json` file:

`"sjaakp/yii2-novelty": "*"`

or run:

`composer require sjaakp/yii2-novelty`

You can manually install **yii2-novelty** by [downloading the source in ZIP-format](https://github.com/sjaakp/yii2-novelty/archive/master.zip).

Using NoveltyBehavior
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[](#using-noveltybehavior)

Add **NoveltyBehavior** to your ActiveRecord like this:

```