How to call resource model method in model

Question

I am overriding Mage/Customer/Model/Customer.php in my local module:

Abc/Customer/Model/Customer.php

protected function _beforeSave()
    {
        parent::_beforeSave();
        echo get_class($this);   //Abc_Customer_Customer_Model_Customer_Customer is the above output

        Mage::getResourceModel('customer/customer')->_beforeSave($this);

The above code is coming from Mage/Model/Resource/Customer.php

This is throwing an error :

Fatal error: Call to protected method Mage_Customer_Model_Resource_Customer::_beforeSave() from context 'Abc_Customer_Model_Customer_Customer ....

How to call this method Mage::getResourceModel('customer/customer')->_beforeSave($this);

Answer 1

As the error already mentioned, you can't call a protected method outside of the class, but as the Magento system works, in this case, you don't have to. Every model save call internally calls save method of it's resource model which in turn call the beforeSave method, that's the way models work in Magento, so the call you are trying to create is redundant in this case.

Also, I'd suggest working with the save_before events instead of overriding beforeSave method, they are much safer.

Answer 2

The answer is 'customer_register_success' as mentioned above by Prateek.

In _beforeSave() , customer model file i have used this one

$emailCheck= $this->setWebsiteId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getWebsiteId())->loadByEmail($this->getData('email'));
        if($emailCheck->getData('entity_id')!= ''){
//error message email id exsist
}