> I have a permissions table which has two fields, page and action.  I
> don't want duplicate permission entries but that's what I'm getting
> since Doctrine wants an auto increment id field.  How do you handle
> this kind of thing?

> I would really like to setup something like a singleton where I create
> a new permission object and when I save, if an entry with the same
> page and action already exists, it returns that entry, otherwise it
> creates a new entry and returns it.

> $permission = new Permission();
> $permission->page = 'accounts';
> $permission->action='create';
> $permission->save(); //permission id = 3

> $permission = new Permission();
> $permission->page = 'accounts';
> $permission->action='delete';
> $permission->save();//permission id = 4

> $permission = new Permission();
> $permission->page = 'accounts';
> $permission->action='create';
> $permission->save();//permission id = 3

> I would like to implement this in a way that will allow me to use
> something like $permission->merge($_POST).  Does this imply overriding
> save?

> I appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks in advance.

> Matt