[Solar-talk] Added notes on working with Models/Records to the wiki

[Rodrigo Moraes]

On Nov 13, 2007 12:44 PM, Oscar M. wrote:
> I've been lurking on the list for a while, and over the last 2 weeks
> have finally started playing with the latest Solar code.  I banged my
> head a little trying to get the Model/Record stuff setup correctly.  As
> a result added my notes about how to make it work to the wiki
> <http://solarphp.org/wiki/tutorials/SettingUpModels>.  I hope it can be
> a useful addition to Solar's documentation, especially for helping
> newcomers feel productive quickly.

Very nice and clear, thank you. :)

I'm thinking to add some notes about the magic fetch* methods, i.e.
you can call "fetchAllByStatus(1)" and the method doesn't necessarily
need to exist in your model. When called, in this example it'd return
all records with the column "status" = 1. It is also available for
fetchOne and you can define *two* column values. Some examples:

    $record = $model->fetchOneByStatus(1);
    $record = $model->fetchOneByStatusAndName(1, 'foo');

    $collection = $model->fetchAllByName('foo');
    $collection = $model->fetchAllByNameAndOtherName('foo', 'bar');

An optional array with parameters for the fetch (like those we use for
normal fetch's) can be added as a last parameters for all the examples
above:

    $record = $model->fetchOneByStatus(1, $params);
    $record = $model->fetchOneByStatusAndName(1, 'foo', $params);

    ... etc.

These are very handy for common/basic/quick fetch's we do all the time.

-- rodrigo