More PHP Modeling (w/ video demo)

[Updated with follow-up video]

About a month ago I posted some ideas about PHP modeling in the Zend Framework and requested feedback. After a month of on-and-off discussions through this website and #zftalk I decided to sit down and implement things a little more.

I now have some working base classes that can be found on GitHub. Right now I’m still thinking things out, so there’s no guarantee that’s the structure I’m going to finish with, but it’s what I’m playing with right now. So far I’ve dropped the DAO interface and the Galahad_Service parent class all together (since both are going to be pretty unique to your application). What’s left is mostly the Entity class and the DataMapper class (as well as a very generic Collection class).

I’ve also started to write some tooling for my modeling system, based on Zend_Tool. Right now it’s generating the model itself, a DAO based on Zend_Db_Table and a Zend_Form (see Matthew Weier O’Phinney’s post about using forms in your models for my reasoning there). It doesn’t generate the DataMapper yet, but that’s just a matter of writing the code…

Again, I’d love some feedback on the direction this is going. Check out the video below and then let me know. Comment below, email me at *****@cmorrell.com or get in touch on Twitter: @inxilpro.

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Follow-up Video (demo of a lot more code):

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