[fw-general] Re: [ZF2] How to get data from related entity

2013-04-08 Thread LoneShooter
Here are some steps you could consider (without code, of course), but they'll give you starting info. 1. Modify book entity to have author property and get/setAuthor method, as well BookEntity -- id name author_id author -- this is new --- get/setAuthor() --- this is new Remember that

Re: [fw-general] Re: [ZF2] How to get data from related entity

2013-04-06 Thread Dan.latter
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

Re: [fw-general] Re: [ZF2] How to get data from related entity

2013-04-06 Thread Marco Pivetta
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