Yes, but it's not on your book :) You would have such a helper somewhere else, where you can access the functionality required to fetch the Author entity
Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On 7 April 2013 04:42, Dan.latter <dan.lat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah but it could be a helper method that wraps the call to getAuthor in > order to return author name. > > > Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That's conceptually wrong. You first get the author, then his name. You > don't call `getAuthorName` on a book. > > Marco Pivetta > > http://twitter.com/Ocramius > > http://ocramius.github.com/ > > > On 7 April 2013 00:10, sinimix [via Zend Framework Community] < > ml-node+s634137n4659642...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using DataMapper pattern and want to access data of one entity from > > another entity related to each other. > > > > Let's say that there are two entities Book and Author, linked via > > author_id. > > > > > > AuthorEntity > > ------ > > id > > name > > -- > > get/setId() > > get/setName() > > > > > > BookEntity > > ---------- > > id > > name > > author_id > > --- > > get/setId() > > get/setName() > > get/setAuthorId() > > > > > > I want to get author name from BookEntity, e.g. $book->getAuthorName(), > > but I'm not sure where and how to start from. Any suggestion? > > > > ------------------------------ > > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > > below: > > > > > http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/ZF2-How-to-get-data-from-related-entity-tp4659642.html > > To start a new topic under Zend Framework, email > > ml-node+s634137n634138...@n4.nabble.com > > To unsubscribe from Zend Framework Community, click here< > http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=634137&code=b2NyYW1pdXNAZ21haWwuY29tfDYzNDEzN3wxNzE0OTI1MTk4 > > > > . > > NAML< > http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Re-ZF2-How-to-get-data-from-related-entity-tp4659643.html > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
