$record->former

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This protected member is an associative array containing the original field values of the database record whose value has changed since the record was last read from the database each identified by the field name all in lower case. This array is empty until the method $record‑>set, or its synonym subscript access on the left hand side of an assignment, is called, since up until that point it would be identical to $row. This array is used to permit applications to modify the key fields which uniquely identify an instance of a record, since the original values of the key fields are preserved here for identifying the record to be updated. It is also used to create the "before" image of records in SqlLog created by $record‑>log for UPDATE requests.

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