Cake 1.x does have this wrong although not intentionally, but there is enough flexibility to deal with it. As others noted, it's fundamental to OO design that rather than having functions that are passed data to operate on, the data contains the behaviour and operates upon itself. Message passing languages such as Smalltalk make this particularly clear, but in cake the data are not objects.
What I initially wanted as soon as I started with cake was model data not to be raw fields, but where appropriate to be comprised of object instances so that those instances can then be asked to perform operations. As an example, if a table row contains fields that model two address instances, having called find I wanted to see the data with two Address class instances rather than the underlying fields. Similarly when storing a model, the data saved would contain object instances rather than raw fields. What I didn't do was have the entire row being a model instance, but I've realised that it needs to be too in some if not all cases. To implement this, and one of the reasons that cake is great is that it was trivial to do, was to create a behaviour that implemented before/after methods, and I specified a model member variable as an array that listed the classes that a database row was comprised of, and that optionally would name the instance (so for address this might be "home", "work", "holiday" etc.). The name corresponded to a column prefix in the schema. The model then just acts as this new behaviour and all find and save operations can work with class instances where appropriate instead of raw columns. A little performance overhead but nice to be in the world of objects again rather than data fragments. The bigger win will be when the entire row is a class instance and that's coming next. I'll post the behaviour in due course in case it's useful to anyone else. Despite the shortcomings, thumbs up to cake for having the flexibility to extend easily. I've found myself almost over enthusiastically extolling the virtues of Cake to two people recently because even when there's one step backwards, there's then two steps forward and it gives the feelgood factor again. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
