Hey Sebastien,
your intuition is right, those things don't belong in the model, as
they differ from application to application.
There are easy ways to have the best of both worlds though.
First, links to, say, a product I find pretty simple:
link_to($product, "product_show", $product);
However, if they do get more complex, I just add a view helper:
link_to_product($product, "optional title here"); that encapsulates
the logic for the given application.
With regards to cache, you can either add a custom CacheManager class
to house that code: CacheManager::clearProductCache($product);
or you could put those methods into the application configuration and
then call sfContext::getInstance() -> getConfiguration() ->
clearProductCache($product);
Make sense?
Daniel
On Oct 5, 9:24 pm, "Sebastien Armand [Pink]" <khe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the times in symfony applications, we'll have a model let's say it's
> 'Product' and then many interactions that I don't think belong to the model
> part of the application still would be really convenient if you could write
> them as $myModel->doThis()
>
> The kind of interaction I'm thinking about are more 'application' level.
> For example I'll usually have a link to a page where this product is
> displayed, and instead of having to write the url_for ('product_route',
> $myProduct), it seems to me much more natural if I could write something
> like $myProduct->getUrl().
> Same thing for removing bits of cache related to this product, it seems
> correct in a way to write $myProduct->removeCachedElements(); or something
> like this.
>
> However those interactions as I see them don't belong to the model, they are
> much more linked with a higher presentational or web level of interaction.
>
> Just wondering how other people do things this way or not?
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