Symfony Write to sfGuard Table

Question

I know it's not ideal, but I have a few extra fields on the sfGuard User table and I would like to write to it from another module. There is a specific field that is a simple integer but I would like it to -1 each time they perform a specific task. Here is what I tried. I don't get an error message but it also doesn't write the number to the table.

  public function executePublish(sfWebRequest $request)
  {
    $this->user = $this->getUser()->getGuardUser();
    $times = ($this->user->getTimes() - 1);
    $this->getUser()->getGuardUser()->setTimes($times);
  }

This is the "Publish" action for a different module. Am I doing this wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

You didn't maked an INSERT to the database by setTimes($times) you have to call save() method after setting all values of object.

It should look like this:

 public function executePublish(sfWebRequest $request)
  {
    $this->user = $this->getUser()->getGuardUser();
    $times = ($this->user->getTimes() - 1);
    $this->user->setTimes($times);
    $this->user->save();
  }