Codeigniter 4 ignoring model insert callback - php

Question

Running model->insert() from my controller does not trigger the beforeInsert function, below is my model and the function from my conntroller
<?php
namespace App\Models;
use CodeIgniter\Model;
class UserModel extends Model {
protected $table = 'admin_users';
protected $useAutoIncrement = true;
protected $primaryKey = 'row_uid';
protected $returnType = 'object';
protected $beforeInsert = ['passwordHash'];
protected $allowCallbacks = true;
protected $allowedFields = ['id', 'row_uid', 'username', 'email', 'password', 'active', 'deleted_at'];
public function __construct() {
return $this;
}
protected function passwordHash($data) {
$data['data']['row_uid'] = uniqid('',true);
$data['data']['password'] = password_hash($data['data']['password'], PASSWORD_DEFAULT);
if(isset($data['data']['password_c'])) unset($data['data']['password_c']);
return $data;
}
}
And here is the controller function
public function postRegister() {
$request = \Config\Services::request();
if($post = $request->getPost()) {
$valid = $this->validate([
'username' => 'is_unique[admin_users.username]', // Change table name to be dynamic
'email' => 'required|valid_email|is_unique[admin_users.email]', // Change table name to be dynamic
'password' => 'required|min_length[10]|max_length[100]',
'password_c' => 'required|matches[password]',
]);
if(!$valid) {
$this->data['errors'] = $this->validator->getErrors();
foreach($post as $key => $e) {
if(isset($this->data['errors'][$key])) {
$this->data['invalid_fields'][$key] = ' is-invalid';
} else $this->data['invalid_fields'][$key] = '';
}
return $this->getRegister();
}
$l = $this->userModel->insert($post);
echo '<pre>',var_dump($l),'</pre>';exit;
}
}
I determine that the callback is not running because the password is not hashed, the uid is not generated and running die or exit does nothing.
Thank you
EDIT:
I got it working by adding allowCallback() but i shouldn't need this?
$this->userModel->allowCallbacks(true)->insert($post);

Answer 1

1 - Delete the constructor method in the model; you don't need that .
2- set protected $allowCallbacks = true; before $beforeInsert = ['passwordHash'];
The above approach is standard coding in the Codeigniter framework. If those steps didnt resolve the problem, the solution is to check the database for the row_uid and password types.