Good point regarding associations. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 13:37, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From my experience it is always best to have the Primary Key field be an > auto-incrementing field. If you have additional fiekds wich might be some > kind of serial number or something thats fine, that can be a column with a > unique index, but a lot of searches tend to happen on Primary Key's and > integer searches on a sorted field tend to be far more efficient than a text > search on an unsorted column. > > In addition, seperating into a auto-incrementing PK column means that you > can alter the other columns ar a whim without worrying about breaking ID > associations with other tables etc. > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM, xpanshun <srhen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also, is there a way to make it so that primary key fields are even >> viewable? It seems they are hidden by default... >> >> On Nov 3, 12:31 pm, xpanshun <srhen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I've seen this question asked before a lot but from years ago--so >> > there wasn't any working response. I am hoping now that its 2010, that >> > there is a solution... >> > >> > I am using Symfony 1.4. I am currently working with the admin >> > generator and I have some primary key fields that are NOT numeric auto- >> > increment. These fields are varchar that I need the admin to input >> > manually. >> > >> > Is there a way to get such a primary key--or any primary key field to >> > be editable or created new on the backend? >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> >> -- >> If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to >> security at symfony-project.com >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "symfony users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Gareth McCumskey > http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > twitter: @garethmcc > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en > -- Alex Pilon (613) 608-1480 -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
