created a protected function to mark a field as updated

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/db/entity.php b/db/entity.php
index 1adf9b518..2c6f4f899 100644
--- a/db/entity.php
+++ b/db/entity.php
@@ -45,11 +45,9 @@ abstract class Entity {
 		if(strpos($methodName, 'set') === 0){
 			$setterPart = substr($methodName, 3);
 			$attr = lcfirst($setterPart);
-		
-			// mark as accessed
-			array_push($this->updatedFields, $attr);	
-			$this->$attr = $args[0];
 
+			$this->markFieldUpdated($attr);
+			$this->$attr = $args[0];
 		} elseif(strpos($methodName, 'get') === 0) {
 			$getterPart = substr($methodName, 3);
 			$attr = lcfirst($getterPart);
@@ -59,6 +57,15 @@ abstract class Entity {
 
 
 	/**
+	 * Mark am attribute as updated
+	 * @param string $attribute the name of the attribute
+	 */
+	protected function markFieldUpdated($attribute){
+		array_push($this->updatedFields, $attribute);
+	}
+
+
+	/**
 	 * Transform a database columnname to a property 
 	 * @param string $columnName the name of the column
 	 * @return string the property name