Thx Matthew your bug app example is just what I needed :) You even get nicely namespaced models that way too.
Just a quick question about your model unit tests, it seems from looking at the source you use a real db connection is this correct? I was having trouble trying to test with Zend_Db_Table so I have further abstracted my model so that I can replace tables with test objects. I am just checking, just incase I missed some functionality in Zend_Db_Table Thx for the help, nice work on the Loader optimizations btw. keith 2008/11/11 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -- keith Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 01:39 PM +0000): >> I am just wondering what the recommended way to load models is. >> >> 1) Add model directories to the path and use Zend_Loader >> 2) Use the Plugin Loader >> >> I ask as there has been discussion on speed and the differences >> between ZL and PL, I was wondering what the most efficient out of the >> two. > > You're going to have potential inefficiencies with both. > > If you go for (1), then if your app grows, you'll start adding paths for > each module, and the larger your include_path grows, the more liklihood > of naming conflicts and the more inefficient the lookups will become. > > If you go for (2), you'll have a performance decrease right off the bat > -- but you can alleviate most of that with the new PluginLoader include > file cache that ships with 1.7.0. You can also then prefix your classes > per-module. > > I personally usually go with (2), and you can see an example of how I > approach it in the bugapp demo I wrote for the DPC earlier this year: > > http://github.com/weierophinney/bugapp > > In that, I use an action helper that uses an internal PluginLoader to > grab models. (Helpers are in application/controllers/helpers/) > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Software Architect | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [MuTe] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
