[fw-general] Anyone using/planning to use Zend_Db_Table?

[Nick Lo]

I've just recently had time to test out Zend_Db_Table and while I  
realise it has a new proposal (which I can't get to right now as the  
wiki appears to be down) I'm curious as to how many are really using  
or planning to use it?

I think the main thing that I don't feel comfortable with about its  
(and ActiveRecord type) approach is the need to call DESCRIBE before  
it can operate. This means that even the simplest query becomes at  
least 2 queries and seems like an unnecessary overhead. I just wonder  
quite what kind of apps are in need of this kind of thing. Small apps  
would surely just be able to work more directly with the SQL and  
larger apps would surely suffer performance issues.

It would make sense to have some kind of cache of the database info  
rather that be querying it afresh each time and only update the cache  
when the database itself changed.

Anyway, I am interested in any discussion about this particularly  
from those who have a database admin leaning and have opinions about  
its efficiency.

Thanks,

Nick