On 8/8/06, John David Anderson (_psychic_) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 8, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Mark Quinn wrote: > > > The post controller does a recursive find to get a post and its > > comments. However this returns a big fat array of all the required > > data and does not use my yummy objects. I can read a specific database > > field to find if something is approved or not, but this is not very > > OO. I would like to add an "is_approved" method to my Comment object. > > Wouldn't this method just read the database field anyway? > > You might try associating your comments to your posts in two ways - > one way that only grabs approved comments, and another that only > grabs not-yet-approved comments. You can do this using the > 'conditions' key of the hasMany array. > > This is ORM, so that's pretty object-friendly. :)
Sorry John, you missed my question. I knew it might be risky to simplify it. This is a general design question. I don;t need to solve a specific programming problem. For the purposes of the question, lets assume that the model method (previously known as "is_approved") requires a complex algorithm to be computed. What would be the recommended way to work then? My mental blocker fundamentally revolves round this: We can be very OO and add lots of nice methods to our models (to do simple or complex things), but if we use any of the model->find variants to populate some data, we then can't use our nice new methods, as the data is not returned to us as objects. How do I use my shiny new model methods and model->find (and its friends) together ? And why don't methods like "find" return model objects ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
