[Solar-talk] The new model class discussion, some questions

[Paul M Jones]

On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:23 PM, Antti Holvikari wrote:

> I can't say much about AR and ORM designs since I haven't used them at
> all. But it is that *exact* same reason as Paul mentions above that
> bothers me too. As I mentioned on #solarphp, it makes perfect sense to
> me that a model (table object) represents *many* records while a
> record (or a row) object represents *one* record.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one on that.  :-)


> I have yet to be convinced to the record-based approach. The table
> stuff seems more sane to me, at least for now. I'd like to hear more
> opinions about this. Any Zend guys near by?

Antti -- I *so* agree here.  I'm just not completely convinced.  I  
think the table-based approach is more sane, and more representative  
of the real underlying structure of what's going on with the SQL.  As  
an abstraction, it doesn't stray *too* far from what it represents,  
only just far enough to be useful in PHP.



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