RE: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-26 Thread Jörg W Mittag
Felix Geisendörfer wrote: One of the things that I really like as well is creating Models for relationships. I think I heard about it first in David Heinemeier Hansson Keynote Adress at RailsConf '06 (Video http://blog.scribestudio.com/articles/2006/07/09/david-heinemeier-han

CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread jwmittag
Hi, just a few weeks ago, I discovered Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and instantly fell in love with it. My webhoster doesn't offer Ruby, so I set out to search for an alternative and I found CakePHP. However, even though I never seriously used Ruby on Rails and only toyed around with it for three

Re: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Hartjes
Hey there jwm, I've got experience with both Rails and CakePHP. In fact, I even gave a talk at the php|works conference in September on the topic of What Can PHP Learn From Ruby On Rails?, so I'd like to think I'm qualified to comment on this topic. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong.

Re: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread nate
- Acts (acts allow you to decorate a model's behaviour with additional orthogonal aspects and encapsulate that behaviour in a single, central place) We have something called 'Behaviors' in Cake 1.2. There have been a few posts on it in this mailling list which you can search for,

Re: Re: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread Samuel DeVore
tease On 10/25/06, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Acts (acts allow you to decorate a model's behaviour with additional orthogonal aspects and encapsulate that behaviour in a single, central place) We have something called 'Behaviors' in Cake 1.2. There have been a few

Re: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread nate
https://trac.cakephp.org/browser/branches/1.2.x.x/cake/libs/model/behavior.php Just because we haven't released any doesn't mean you can't write one yourself :-P --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Cake

RE: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread Jörg W Mittag
Thanks Chris, Chris Hartjes wrote: - join models CakePHP offers that via the same sort of hasMany, belongsTo and hasManyAndBelongsTo functionality. That seems to have been misunderstood. I was thinking of using real join Models in the Domain Model for many-to-many relationships instead

RE: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread Jörg W Mittag
nate wrote: - Acts (acts allow you to decorate a model's behaviour with additional orthogonal aspects and encapsulate that behaviour in a single, central place) We have something called 'Behaviors' in Cake 1.2. There have been a few posts on it in this mailling list which you

Re: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread Chris Hartjes
On 10/25/06, Jörg W Mittag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - object-relational mapping of inheritance I think CakePHP allows this through object chaining, which to me is a very powerful yet underutilized concept. Can you elaborate on that? I just googled for object chaining and only got a

Re: CakePHP for Railers

2006-10-25 Thread Felix Geisendörfer
Jrg, thanks for your lengthy post, it was a pretty interesting read. One of the things that I really like as well is creating Models for relationships. I think I heard about it first in David Heinemeier Hansson Keynote Adress at RailsConf '06 (Video, Slides). I've played around with it a