CakePHP 2.x.x Model History Behavior by which It is possible to record a history of each CRUD action based on a Model.

##Installation Download the archive and past the Model folder into your CakePHP project installation. So that, it will copy a HistoryBehavior under Behavior directory inside Model directory.

You can enable any Model history feature by following bellow steps of installation

• Place the HistoryBehavior.php file under Behavior directory inside Model directory.
• Add public $actsAs = array('History'); in any Model definition, For example see below Sample Guest Model definition.
• [Option] - Create a History Model as well.
• [Important] - You must create a database table with same fields of your target model table with some extra fields as mentioned below sample History Model definition.
• That's all, Now it's your time to do what ever you want with your each model history data from database tables.

###Sample of a Model which has supports for history data: Guest.php

<?php
App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class Guest extends AppModel {
	public $useTable = 'guests';
	public $actsAs = array('History');
}
?>

###Sample of a History Model of above mentioned Guest Model GuestHistory.php

<?php
/*
A database table with same schema as Guest but with 4 extra fields as mentioned below.
`model_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`model_action` varchar(120) COLLATE latin1_german2_ci DEFAULT NULL,
`model_json_object` text COLLATE latin1_german2_ci,
`model_action_user_id` int(11) DEFAULT '1',
*/
App::uses('AppModel', 'Model');
class GuestHistory extends AppModel {
	public $useTable = 'guests_histories';	
}
?>

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