Consider writing a behavior - which you can then attach to whatever tables  
you wish.

Checkout:  
http://www.doctrine-project.org/documentation/manual/1_1/en/behaviors


On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:11:23 +0200, mbernasocchi <mbernasoc...@gmail.com>  
wrote:

>
> Hi I've a question regarding how to design a feature of my project.
> my project has a question/answer section, a forum section and a
> tutorial section.
> I want to add a "flag as inapropriate" functionality to each of the
> tables (question, answer, forum, forum_comment, recipe,
> recipe_comment). I want to have a table where i store who flagged
> which object. if the same object if flagged twice then it's 'is_abuse'
> field is set to true and the abuser's account is blocked.
>
> now I'we two ideas how to solve this and Im wondering which one you
> consider better:
>
> 1. create a single table with object_type and object_id as attribute
> [code]AbuseFlags:
>    columns:
>     object_type:
>       type: enum
>       values: [question, answer, forum, forum_comment, recipe,
> recipe_comment]
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
>     object_id:
>       type: integer(4)
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
>     flagger_user_id:
>       type: integer(4)
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
>     abuser_user_id:
>       type: integer(4)
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
> [/code]
>
> 2. create a separate table (like a m:n relation) for each object type.
> [code]ForumCommentsAbuseFlags:
>    columns:
>     forum_comment_id:
>       type: integer(4)
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
>     flagger_user_id:
>       type: integer(4)
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
>     abuser_user_id:
>       type: integer(4)
>       primary: true
>       notnull: true
> [/code]
>
>
> or do you have a better idea, I'm shure this has been done a coupple
> of times allready!
> As far as i'm concerned I wouldent mind having some model method
> taking care of getting the table name of the offending object and set
> it as object_type in the AbuseFlag table.I was just wondering if from
> a design (and symfony -my first project with it-) point of view which
> one made more sense
>
> thanks a lot
> Marco
> >


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